Hevelius and Selenographia - all his own work

SCIENCE books in a June 24 sale held by Bloomsbury Auctions included a 1647, Danzig first of Hevelius’ Selenographia, the first lunar atlas, illustrated with a portrait and 111 plates (one with volvelle), mostly engraved by the author from drawings that he made in the observatory that he had equipped with instruments he had built himself.

This copy, in rebacked panelled calf of the period, sold at £10,000, while another seen in a May 24-…

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