BLAEU (G). ASTRONOMIC INSTITUTION FOR THE USE... Lot 338

BLAEU (G). ASTRONOMIC INSTITUTION FOR THE USE OF GLOBES AND SPHERES, celestial and terrestrial. Amsterdam, Jean and Corneille Blaeu, 1642. Small in-4° of [18]-277-1bl. pages, brown basane, spine with decorated nerves (contemporary binding). The first and rare French translation of this important treatise, first published in Dutch in 1620, is illustrated with figures on wood in the text and is divided into two parts: The first, according to Ptolemy's "improper" hypothesis that the earth is immobile; the second, according to Copernicus' intention that the earth is mobile. (Houzeau-Lancaster, 9714). Head bound: HORNIUS (Georges). HISTORIAE PHILOSOPHICAE libri septem. Leide, apud J. Elsevirium, 1655.