Shelfmark
Gb.2.04 - Gb.2.05
Author
Title
Stanislai de Lubienietski, equitis poloni Theatrum cometicum, duabus partibus constans : I. Quarum prior continet epistolas & communicationes variorum per europam clarissimorum virorum, cum quibus auctor de hoc argumento contulit, Rautensteinii, Heinsii, Gruteri, Vossii, Oldenburghii, Menagii, Stegmanni, Olearii, Hevelii, Brusselii, Kircheri, Schotti, Bartholini, Langii, Placentini, et plurium aliorum; observationibus, dissertationibus, animadversionibus, & 59 figuris æneis illustrata. Quibus immista sunt varia philosophica & christiana exempla, & monita, ad vitæ melius degendæ usum cuique hominum generi convenientia: 2. posterior exhibet historiam universalem omnium cometarum à tempore diluvii ad ann. 1665. qui numer. 415. enarrantur 25. fig. æneis illustratam. et Theatri cometici exitus, sive de significatione cometarum, ac justa Rautensteiniana cum ejusdem imagine. Ad sereniss[imam] & potentiss[imam] Fredericum Tertium regem, daniæ, norvegiæ, &c. &c. Opus mathematicum, physicum, historicum, politicum, theologicum, ethicum, oeconomicum, chronologicum.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Theatrum cometicum
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni Batavorum, : Ex officina Petri vander [sic] Meersche, bibliopolæ, Anno 1681.
Physical description
3 v. in 2 : ill., ports. ; 33 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Vols. 2 and 3 have been bound together. Vols. 1 and 2 each have added engraved title-page.; vol. 3 has engraved title-page only. The engraved title-pages have imprint: Amstelodami apud Franciscum Cuyperum. 1667; that for vol. 3 adds "Cum privilegiis" following date.
Note
Vol. 2 title-page: Stanislai de Lubienietski, equitis Poloni Historia universalis omnium cometarum, a diluvio usque ad praesentem annum vulgaris epochae a Christo nato 1665. decurrentem, qui numero 415. enarrantur; cum annotationibus; ... Lugduni Batavorum, ex officina Petri vander Meersche, bibliopolae, anno 1681.
Note
Vol. 3 engraved title-page: Theatri cometici exitus de significat. cometarum.
Note
Vol. 1 has additional title-page on p. 243: Communicatio Guerichiana. Continens experimentum novum Magdeburgicum de vacuo spatio. ... nunc vero ab ipso auctore Ottone Guericken, ... Amstelodami. Apud Franciscum Cuperum bibliopolam, prope portam Harlemensem, in platea vulgo dicta de Driehoek-Straat. Pagination and register is continuous.
Note
Pagination: vol. 1: [26], 966, [4] p., [79] leaves of plates (25 double; some folded); vol. 2: [12], 464 p., [25] leaves of plates (5 folded); vol. 3: [4], 78, [4] p.
Note
Signatures: vol. 1: [¶]2, *6, **4, A4-Gggggg4; vol. 2: [¶], [A2], (*)4, A3+A4, B4-Mmm4; vol. 3: [¶]2, A4-K4.
Note
Title-pages in red and black.
Note
Meersche's woodcut device on title-pages, with motto 'Laurea Vincenti'.
Note
This edition with the Leiden imprint is the same as the edition with the Amsterdam, 1666-68, imprint (1667 on the engraved title-pages), i.e. a reissue with new title-pages. Cf. Grässe, IV, 270.
Note
Portions in French or German with Latin translation in parallel columns.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf of vol. 2: Jo: Conans.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on pastedown of vol. 2.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf of vol. 1 in pencil: Giles Auction Mch. 1741. 2 vol. LL-0.7.6. The top right corner of the flyleaf has been excised, presumably to remove an ownership inscription.
Binding
Seventeenth-century English dark brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border with two further lines at spine edge; gold tooled decorative roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet and twine roll, and gold tooled letters (lost from vol. 1); five raised bands; brown and red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
All three engravd title-pages have lost their imprint details through trimming by the binder.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dp.3.7-8.
Subject
Subject
Astronomy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Astronomy Charts, diagrams, etc. Early works to 1800.
Subject
Comets Early works to 1800.
Subject
Comets 1664.
Subject
Comets 1665.
Added entry--name
Meersche, Pieter van der printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46873