1647 Tabulae Motuum Caelestium Universalis V.Renieri ANTIQUE astronomy astrology

Vincenzo Renieri (1606-1648)

Tabulae Motuum Caelestium Universalis.


Florence: Typis Amatoris Massae Foroliuien, 1647


 First edition, folio,

two parts in one volume with divisional title page,
general title page printed in red and black featuring woodcut device with Medici orbs above imprint (fly specking to first title);

some tables printed in red and black;

one folding typographical table slit along fold (likely when the textblock was trimmed)
and repaired with archival tape;

another tear similarly mended;

 bound in later half parchment with patterned paper boards;

final signature with paper repairs along the gutter;

rare at auction


Renieri was a friend and acolyte of Galileo whose calculations made Galileo's tables on the positions of Jupiter's moons more accurate.


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

Size 9.5 by 13.5 in.

Text in Latin
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