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Author	Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.
Title	Tychonis Brahe astronomiae instauratea mechanica.
Publication Info.	Noribergae : Apud Levivum Hvlsium, Anno M. DCII [1602]

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Winthrop	Win 45	IN LIBRARY

Description	[108] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill., maps, ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Note	Headpieces, tailpieces, initials.
	Dedication to Tycho Brahe signed by Oligerus Rosenkranzius.
	Pages with letterpress and engraved illustrations included in pagination and signatures.
	Leaf )::(2 missigned )::(, E4 missigned F4, and F1 missigned P.
	Signatures: )::(⁴ A-E⁶ F⁴ G-H⁶ I⁴.
Local Note	Library copy from the Winthrop Collection. Bound in full calf; recent spine. Printed waste used as partial front endpaper. Title page and leaves A6 F4, H6, and I1 lacking; supplied in facsimile from New York Public Library copy. Inscriptions on flyleaf: 316 in red crayon, No. 31 in pencil, and No. 425 in ink. With autographs of Wait Winthrop and Johanes Winthrop, his monas hieroglyphica, and the anagram on his name: I'hope wins a throne.
Subject	Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
	Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Genre or Form	Printed waste (Binding).
Added Author	Rosenkrantz, Holger, 1574-1642.
	Hulsius, Levinus, -1606, bookseller.
	Winthrop, Wait Still, 1643-1717, signer.
	Winthrop, John, 1606-1676, former owner, inscriber.
	Winthrop Collection (New York Society Library) ZNS
Added Title	Astronomiae instauratea mechanica

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