Astronomy, 3 works 1576-82, illustrations with movable parts

Caspar Peucer:

Elementa doctrinae De circulis coelestibvs, et primo motu recognita et correcta.

Vitebergae (Wittenberg), Johannes Crato (Krafft), 1576. (15,7 x 10 cms.) [16] + 1-128, 145-”204” pp. (=288 pp., irregular pagination) + 8 folding letterpress tables, one including a woodcut illustration. With 4 volvelles (on pages 91, 94, 149 & 189, complete). Text very richly illustrated with woodcuts. (Corresponds to the digitized copy held by the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.)

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Sebastian Theodoricus:

Novae quaestiones sphaerae, hoc est, De circulis coelestibus & primo mobili.

Witebergae (Wittenberg), Johannes Crato (Krafft), 1578. (15,7 x 10 cms.) [16] + 320 pp. + 3 folding letterpress tables. With 4 volvelles (on pages 99, 103, 141 & 193, 2 of which are complete, but the one on p. 99 lacks dials, and the one on p. 193 lacks all movable parts). Text very richly illustrated with woodcuts. (Corresponds to the digitized copy held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.)

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Thomas Blebel:

De Sphaera et primis Astronomiae rudimentis libellus.

[No place], 1582. (15,7 x 10 cms.) [32] + 206 pp. Volvelle on p. 74 (complete). Richly illustrated with woodcuts in text.

Strictly contemporary full vellum, lightly worn, upper cover stamped in gilt (oxidized) with the letters I O H and the date 1583. A pencilled later annotation identifies the owner as Johannes Overbergk Haderslevensis (Joh. Overbergk of Haderslev in present-day Denmark). First title with near-contemporary ownership inscription.

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