1557 ASTRONOMY ILLUSTRATED antique Les Institutions Astronomiques J.P. de Mesmes

Jean-Pierre de Mesmes (1516-1578)

Les Institutions Astronomiques
Contenans les Principaux Fondemens Et Premieres Causes des Cours Et Mouvemens Celestes.
 Avec la Totale Revolution du Ciel & de ses parties: les causes & raisons des eclipses, tant de la Lune, Que du Soleil

Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1557.


First edition (rare and only edition)

This work exemplifies mid-sixteenth century Parisian typography at its best.
Type, payout, illustration and embellishment combine to create scientific treatise of exceptional clarity, enhanced in thic copy by the broad margins.

illustrated with text woodcuts (head- and tailpieces, initials, and diagrams, tables);
bound in later half parchment with marbled paper boards;

very good condition , minor browning, crisp copy

Small folio: 13 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.

[xvi], 214 (i.e. 314), [18]

Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.

-Brunet III,1670; Honeyman V 2221; Houzeau & Lancaster 2590-

Text in French
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De Mesmes was a French scholar who specialized in the study of the Italian language, in addition to his work as an astronomer. The present work is one of the first vernacular French-language works dedicated to astronomy.
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