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Author	Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.
Title	Tychonis Brahe Dani : de mvndi ætherei recentioribvs phænomenis. Liber secundus.
Publication Info.	Excudi primum cœptus Vraniburgi Daniæ, ast Pragæ Bohemiæ absolutus ; Prostat Francofurti : Apud Godefridum Tampachium, M.DCX [1610]

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Winthrop	Win 46	IN LIBRARY

Description	[16], 465, [3] pages : illustrations, woodcuts ; 24 cm (4to)
Note	Title vignette, initials, headpiece, tailpieces; printer's device at end. Tables and diagrams throughout.
	Running title: Tychonis Brahe liber II de cometa anni 1577.
	Errata: p. [466].
	This issue has the last gathering of the 1588 ed., with colophon: Vraniburgi in insula Hellesponti Danici Hvenna imprimebat authoris typographus Christophorus Vveida. Anno Domini. M.D.LXXXVIII. Another issue of the same year has colophon: Pragæ Bohemorum absoluebatur typis Schumanianis. Anno Domini. M. DC. III.
	Signatures: )(⁴ **⁴ A-3M⁴ N².
Local Note	Library copy from the Winthrop Collection. Bound in full calf; new spine. Pages edged in red.
	Library copy bound with Brahe's Tychonis Brahe Dani : Esistolarvm astrono micarvm libri. Frankfurt : G. Tambach, 1610. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Subject	Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
	Comets -- Early works to 1800.
	Comets -- 1577 -- Early works to 1800.
Genre or Form	Printers' devices (Printing) -- Czech Republic -- 17th century.
Added Author	Tambach, Gottfried, active 1607-1632, bookseller.
	Weida, Christophorus, printer.
	Winthrop, John, 1606-1676, former owner.
	Winthrop Collection (New York Society Library) ZNS
Added Title	Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata. Pars 2
	De mundi ætherei recentioribus phænomenis
	De cometa anni 1577

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