DOPPELMAYER, Johannes Gabriel.- Atlas coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis [...] secundum Nic. Copernici et ex parte Tychonis de Brahe [...]. Norimbergae, sumptibus Heredum Homannianorum, 1742.
Estimation :
12000 / 15000
Description
In-f° (31,5 x 54 cm) : [3] ff.; 30 double-page plates mounted on guards (4 pl. with reduced lower margins, small restauration at lower corner of 1st title).
Modern binding : half blue shagreen with corners, blue marbled paper boards, ribbed spine with gilt fillets and roll-stamps, brown sprinkled edges (light white spots on the spine).
FIRST EDITION of Doppelmayer's best known astronomical work : his celestial atlas. The preliminary engraved leaves are : a 1st engraved title with full-page illustration by J.C. Reinsperger after J.J. Preisler showing Ptolemy, Copernicus, Keppler and Tycho Brahe discussing the planetary motions, a 2nd title with full engraved text and vignette and the list of plates. The 30 hand-coloured celestial maps show : the solar system, the cosmological systems of Copernicus, Tycho Brache and Riccioli, motions and phases of the planets, comet's orbital periods, cometary theories of Johannes Keppler, Edmund Halley, Isaac Newton, etc., star charts, a selenographic map, lunar and eccliptic theories, etc. The plates are nicely decorated with astronomical instruments, observatories etc.
# BNF Richelieu, Cartes et plans Ge DD 2987; # Tooley I-381; # van Gent.- The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of J.G. Doppelmayer, 2006.
ENRICHED with : SEUTTER, Matthias.- Kalendarium Juliano-Romanum perpetuum. [Augsburg, 1750 ?]. Copper-engraving, 49,5 x 56,5 cm, hand-coloured (folded, restored margins).
Provenance: C. De Valenzi (modern engraved armorial bookplate).
IHFZ Édition originale de cet atlas céleste complet de ses 2 titres gravés, de la table et des 30 cartes astronomiques gravées sur doubles pages, coloriées à l'aquarelle. Enrichi d'1 carte par Seutter. Demi-chagrin bleu moderne à coins.
Modern binding : half blue shagreen with corners, blue marbled paper boards, ribbed spine with gilt fillets and roll-stamps, brown sprinkled edges (light white spots on the spine).
FIRST EDITION of Doppelmayer's best known astronomical work : his celestial atlas. The preliminary engraved leaves are : a 1st engraved title with full-page illustration by J.C. Reinsperger after J.J. Preisler showing Ptolemy, Copernicus, Keppler and Tycho Brahe discussing the planetary motions, a 2nd title with full engraved text and vignette and the list of plates. The 30 hand-coloured celestial maps show : the solar system, the cosmological systems of Copernicus, Tycho Brache and Riccioli, motions and phases of the planets, comet's orbital periods, cometary theories of Johannes Keppler, Edmund Halley, Isaac Newton, etc., star charts, a selenographic map, lunar and eccliptic theories, etc. The plates are nicely decorated with astronomical instruments, observatories etc.
# BNF Richelieu, Cartes et plans Ge DD 2987; # Tooley I-381; # van Gent.- The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of J.G. Doppelmayer, 2006.
ENRICHED with : SEUTTER, Matthias.- Kalendarium Juliano-Romanum perpetuum. [Augsburg, 1750 ?]. Copper-engraving, 49,5 x 56,5 cm, hand-coloured (folded, restored margins).
Provenance: C. De Valenzi (modern engraved armorial bookplate).
IHFZ Édition originale de cet atlas céleste complet de ses 2 titres gravés, de la table et des 30 cartes astronomiques gravées sur doubles pages, coloriées à l'aquarelle. Enrichi d'1 carte par Seutter. Demi-chagrin bleu moderne à coins.
