



MARINONI (GIOVANNI GIACOMO) De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, FIRST EDITION, Vienna, Leopoldus Joannes Kaliwoda, 1745
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MARINONI (GIOVANNI GIACOMO)
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First edition of "one of the most exquisitely illustrated astronomical works ever printed" (Kenney), describing and illustrating the astronomical instruments in the private Viennese observatory of G.J. Marinoni, mathematician and astronomer to the Imperial Court of Austria and geodetic surveyor. The observatory was one of the most beautiful and best equipped in Europe, and the instruments illustrated here include quadrants, telescopes, micrometers, an improved Graham pendulum, and a camera obscura.
This copy is complete with the errata/instructions to the binder leaf at the end (Riccardi mistakenly calls for 2 leaves rather than pages, leading to some copies being described as lacking the second errata leaf).