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COPERNICUS, Nicholas (1473-1543). Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui de revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribuntur. Nunc demum post 75 ab obitu authoris annum integritati suae restituta, notisque illustrata, opera & studio D. Nicolai Mulerii . Amsterdam: Wilhelmus Jansonius, 1617.
COPERNICUS, Nicholas (1473-1543). Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui de revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribuntur. Nunc demum post 75 ab obitu authoris annum integritati suae restituta, notisque illustrata, opera & studio D. Nicolai Mulerii . Amsterdam: Wilhelmus Jansonius, 1617. 4° (238 x 178mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, initials, numerous diagrams and tables in text. ****3 cancelled. (Small wormtrack to margins of M and Q3-4, short closed tear to outer margin of Q1, Z4 and Hh4 chipped not affecting text, narrow hole to margin of Ddd2, light sporadic spotting.) 17th-century calf gilt, lettering-piece with gilt lettering and later label with date in manuscript (rubbed, bumped, few slight worm traces, small chip to foot of spine). Provenance : Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and blindstamps, sale Sotheby's 10 June 2004, lot 559). THE IMPORTANT THIRD EDITION OF DE REVOLUTIONIBUS , the first with commentary by Nicholaus Müller of Groningen. It was published one year after the work was decreed suspended 'until corrected' by papal authority; the effects of this decree were largely confined to Italy, however. Cinti 128 (58); De Caro 72; Honeyman II 756.