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ASTRONOMY: MUENSTER AND OTHERS. :4 titles:
1. MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN. Horologiographia. Basel: Henric Petri, n.d. 4to (200 x 149 mm). Woodcut diagram on title page and numerous woodcut diagrams in text, folding manuscript astronomical diagram tipped in, with ink notations, and 2 inserted leaves with manuscript diagrams. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Some browning and staining, a few marginal tears with some repairs, edges of manuscript diagrams trimmed with some loss, worming through last gatherings starting at ff.
2. WING, VINCENT. 1619-1668; and WILLIAM LEYBOURN. 1626-1716. Urania Practica. London: R. Leybourn, 1649. 8vo (165 x 105 mm). Engraved frontispiece (bound after title page), folding letterpress table, woodcut illustrations in text. Modern quarter calf and mottled boards. Lacking leaf M4 and final leaf Ff4 (table of contents), large tear to S3 with loss of text and part of illustration, paper repairs to Ff2-3, ink ownership inscription of front flyleaf, browning and spotting.
3. RAMESEY, WILLIAM. 1627-1675. Astrologia Restaurata; or Astrologie Restored. London: Robert White, 1654. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio (275 x 178 mm). Rebacked contemporary calf. Repairs to covers, title, following text leaf and G4 re-margined, lacking gathering A4, large old repair to margin of Gg4, dampstaining to outside margins, scattered browning and spotting, a few ink annotations.
4. SMYTH, WILLIAM HENRY. 1788-1865. The Cycle of Celestial Objects. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1840. Folio (293 x 236 mm). 5 engraved plates and 1 color lithographed plate, wood-engraved illustrations in text. Late 19th/early 20th century morocco by Zaehnsdorf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with 5 raised bands, green and black morocco lettering pieces. Heavily rubbed, some chipping to covers, joints tender, scattered foxing.
