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MARINONI (GIOVANNI GIACOMO) De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, FIRST EDITION, Vienna, Leopoldus Joannes Kaliwoda, 1745 image 2
MARINONI (GIOVANNI GIACOMO) De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, FIRST EDITION, Vienna, Leopoldus Joannes Kaliwoda, 1745 image 3
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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)

De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by J.J. Sedelmayr after A.D. Bertoli, title printed in red and black with a vignette map of Vienna engraved by J.C. Winkler, 43 engraved folding plates, engraved illustrations (7 full-page), one engraved initial by Winkler, woodcut initials and head-pieces, with final errata and instructions to the binder in Latin and German leaf, some mold stains in blank upper margins, with the first few leaves restored, modern calf preserving some sections of original backstrip, red edges [Kenney, Catalogue of the Rare Astronomical Books in the San Diego State University Library, 115; Poggendorff II, 53; Riccardi II, 119, "Bellissima ediz."], Folio (346 x 245mm.), Vienna, Leopoldus Joannes Kaliwoda, 1745

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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).

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