Search Results: de astronomica specula domestica et organico by marinoni giovanni jacopo

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Vienna: Leopold Joann Kaliwoda, 1745. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Six parts in one volume. Folio (349 x 253 mm). [25], 2-170, [2], 171-172, [2], 173-174, [2], 175-176, [2], 177-210, [2] pp., engraved frontispiece by A.D. Bertoli and J.J. Sedelmayr, letterpress title printed in red and black and with a vignette (plan od Vienna) by Jo. Christ. Winnckler, engraved headpiece, engraved and woodcut initials and tailpieces, errata on final leaf, 43 engraved folding plates (including one smaller size bound after p.194), 9 engraved illustrations in text (one full size on p. [179]). Unpaginated 4 leaves between pp. 170-171, 172-173, 174-175 and 176-177 are double-sided plates, but part of the signature. Signatures: [a]2 b-d2 )(-2)(2 A-3I2. Bound in contemporary full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label, blue-sprinkled edges, original endpapers (vellum soiled and spotted, old repair to head of spine, corners bumped, first flyleaf torn).… Read More

Finely engraved frontis. of the interior of the Imperial Library in Vienna, 43 folding engraved plates, 17 engravings in the text (including 8 full-page), engraved plan of Vienna on title, engraved headpiece, & one initial. Title printed in red & black. 12 p.l. (incl. the frontis.), 210 pp., one leaf of errata. Folio, cont. mottled sheep (dampstain, for the most part quite faint, in lower portion of final 40 leaves), spine richly gilt, contrasting leather lettering piece on spine. Vienna: L.J. Kaliwoda, 1745. First edition, first issue, of this luxuriously printed and illustrated volume; this is a particularly fine and handsome copy. This work describes and illustrates the astronomical instruments in the private observatory of G.J. Marinoni (1676-1755), mathematician and astronomer to the Imperial Court of Austria and geodetic surveyor. Like the private observatories of Tycho Brahe in the 16th century and Hevelius in the 17th century, Marinoni's observatory was one of the most… Read More