Beschreibung
Two books/volumes of a four-volume astronomical and geographical work written by Henricus Niderndorff (1680-1744), a Jesuit scholar and scientist. The physical volume contains the books/volumes no. 1-2: "Liber Primus Geographiae Cosmicae, Sive Mathematicae Respectivae Coelo Conformis"; "Liber Secundus. Geographia Naturalis Absoluta, Sive Architectura Terraquae, et Mundi Sublinaris Ab Authore Naturae Condita". Both books/volumes feature a frontispiece: a portrait of Friedrich Karl von Schönborn (1674-1746) with the Schönborn coat of arms (a copper engraving made by Johann Wilhelm Windter, 1697-1765); a diagram of the atmosphere of Earth (a copper engraving made by Johann Melchior Gutwein). The first book/volume contains 5 fold-out plates with copper engravings (mostly astronomical ones but a map of the globe is also included; depictions of Ptolemaic, Tychonic, Copernican and Cartesian systems are particularly remarkable); the second book/volume contains 2 fold-out plates with copper engravings (Tychonic and Copernican systems; another map of the globe). Four fold-out plates seems to be missing: celestial spheres with constellations ("Planiglobium Coeleste") in the first book; two maps and a wind rose in the second one. Fraktur typesetting; pages are decorated with two identical headpieces (copper engravings) and large woodcut tailpieces. /// Leather binding with raised bands, gilt ornament, coloured edges and marbled endpapers (20th century cloth backstrip, boards and endpapers are added); hardback, [22]+390+[10] pp., 1 frontispiece, 5 plates, [2]+368+[8] pp., 1 frontispiece, 2 plates, 8° (17.5 x 21.5 cm), leather heavily worn, chipped and rubbed, title effaced, corners bumped, original marbled, endpapers worn, faded and chipped, 6 leaves (including the first frontispiece and title) worn and chipped, some leaves and two plates have small bookworm traces (text not affected), ca. 180 leaves have slightly stained corner, other signs of wear and age are rare (small fingerprints, small chips etc.), condition: good Book Language/s: Latin. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers A42637
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