1681 Ephemeridum by Gottfried Kirch ANTIQUE astronomy astrology ILLUSTRATED

Gottfried Kirch (1639-1710)

Annus I (-X)
Ephemeridum Motuum Coelestium ad Annum Aerae Christianae 1681-[1690].


Leipzig: Sumptibus autoris apud Haeredes Lanckisianos, typis Viduae Johannis Baueri, 1681-1690


 Ten parts in one quarto volume,
each 48 pages long

illustrated with text diagrams,

9 engravings (of which 3 are folding),
and 3 smaller engravings cut out and tipped onto fore-edge margins;
woodcut initials and headpieces,

[52],[48],[48],[48],[48],[48],[48],[48],[48],[48] pp.

contents browned

the Macclesfield copy, with blind embossed crest to title and South Library bookplate pasted inside front board; 

rare at auction

Kirch was a student of Weigel and Hevelius and served as Berlin's first Royal Astronomer, operating from the Berlin Observatory.
Based on his astronomical observations, made with the aid of telescopes he built himself;
he published calendars such as the present series of ephemerides.


bound in full original vellum over stiff boards with manuscript title to the spine

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

Size 7 by 8 3/4 in.

Text in Latin
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