Harmonices Mundi Libri V.

by Johannes Kepler

$290,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION, first issue see below . The Norman copy of Kepler's great cosmological treatise. Bound in contemporary reversed English calf, rebacked and re-sewn. A fine copy. Very slight fraying to outer margin of title, clean tears not entering the text in the upper margin of leaf f2 and leaf C1; a third clean tear to the inner blank margin of leaf S2. In addition to the engraved illustrations on the added sheets, there are numerous woodcut

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