Hevelius’ Selenographia...
Sold at $75,000 (£51,725), at the Freilich sale which took place at Sotheby’s New York on January 10 and 11, was a superb copy of the first complete lunar atlas, Hevelius’ Selenographia... of 1647.
Bound in contemporary vellum, it also contained firsts of two of the author’s other astronomical wor…