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Breve introduzione alla cosmografia by MARCHETTI, Angelo - 1712
by MARCHETTI, Angelo
Breve introduzione alla cosmografia
by MARCHETTI, Angelo
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Florence: Cesare Bindi, 1712. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (208 x 160 mm). 120 pp., including title-page, woodcut initials and ornaments, woodcut astronomical diagrams in text. Contemporary vellum over boards, small loss to upper cover and spine, hinges starting. tiny marginal ink spots to title, first few leaves a bit browned, light waterstaining to gutter, slight marginal spotting and finger soiling, lower blank corner of first two leaves torn, a few tears and paper flaws to blank outer margins elsewhere, H2-3 working loose and with small clean tear to fore margin. Provenance: inked ex-libris of a friar from the Monastery of Peccioli; Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ---- Riccardi I, 109:4.1 ("raro"); Houzeau & Lancaster 8011. FIRST EDITION of a rare astronomical work. The Pistoiese scientist Angelo Marchetti (1674-1753) was a teacher of mathematics in Pisa. - Visit our website for additional images and information.
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Breve Introdvzione Alla Cosmografia Di Angelo Marchetti (1712) (Italian Edition)
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Breve Introdvzione Alla Cosmografia Di Angelo Marchetti (1712) (Italian Edition)
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Introduzione alla Cosmografia ... edizione seconda si aggiunge in fine un Succinto Trattato di Navigazione dell' istesso Autore.Pistoia, Atto Bracali, 1738. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 3 folding half-page plates and 1 folding letterpress table, 2 full-page plates, and 17 additional woodcut diagrams in the text. Contemporary boards, covered with gold-brocade paper.
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[4], 137, [1 blank]; 33 pp.Very rare second edition of Marchetti's Cosmografia (the last edition published during his lifetime), supplemented by the first edition of his treatise on navigation, both illustrated with woodcut diagrams. After several chapters on terminology, signs of the zodiac, etc., the author discusses the phases of the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, measurement, the Ptolemaic, Copernican, and Tychonic solar systems, and astronomical instruments (quadrants and terrestrial and celestial globes). Marchetti's Succinto Trattato di Navigazione , (Pistoia, Atto Bracali, 1738), though mentioned on the main title-page, has its own title-page, pagination and series of signatures, and was sometimes issued separately. It discusses navigational charts and their systems of parallels and meridians, compasses, measurement, etc. An early owner's inscription on the title-page has eaten through the paper, not affecting the printing but leaving some small holes and slightly staining the following page.…
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