Johannis Hevelii Selenographia: sive, Lunæ descriptio; : atque accurata, tam macularum ejus, quam motuum diversorum, aliarumque omnium vicissitudinum, phasiumque, telescopii ope deprehensarum, delineatio. In quâ simul caeterorum omnium planetarum nativa facies, variaeque observationes, praesertim autem macularum solarium, atque Jovalium, tubospicillo acquisitae, figuris accuratissimè aeri incisis, sub aspectum ponuntur: nec non quamplurimae astronomicae, opticae, physicaeque quaestiones proponuntur atque resolvuntur. Addita est, lentes expoliendi nova ratio; ut et telescopia diversa construendi, et experiendi, horumque adminiculo, varias observationes coelestes, imprimis quidem eclipsium, cùm solarium, tum lunarium, exquisitè instituendi, itemque diametros stellarum veras, viâ infallibili, determinandi methodus; eoq[ue], quicquid praetera circa ejusmodi explicatur.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687
Corporate Author: Lownes Science Collection (Brown University)
Other Authors: Boy, Adolf, 1612-1680? (Illustrator), Falck, Jeremiasz, approximately 1610-1677 (Engraver), Twenhusen, Helmick à, approximately 1590-1660 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:Latin
Published: Gedani [Danzig] edita ... : Autoris sumtibus, Typis Hünefeldianis., anno aerae Christianae, 1647.
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260 |a Gedani [Danzig] edita ... :  |b Autoris sumtibus, Typis Hünefeldianis.,  |c anno aerae Christianae, 1647. 
300 |a [28], 563, [1] p. (last page blank), [72] leaves of plates (3 folded), [40] p. of plates :  |b ill., maps, port. ;  |c 36 cm. (fol.) 
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500 |a Errata: p. 563 
500 |a Imprint transposed; date follows "Gedani" 
500 |a Includes index 
500 |a Plates include an added engraved title page and portrait engraved by Jeremiasz Falck after Adolf Boy and Helmick à Twenhusen; other illustrations engraved by the author. Plate "21" is a volvelle; plates "P", "Q" and "R" are double-leaf maps; 20 plates are printed on both sides. All plates are listed in order, with placements and a note to the binder, on 4*4r-4v. Some copies include a further plate "RRR", not included in the list. Further small engraved illustrations are printed in the text 
500 |a "Selenographiae appendix, et heliographicas aliquot annorum observationes et orbis Jovialis positum, motumque exhibens" (p. [497]-548) has divisional t.p 
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590 |a Hay Lownes Science copy: Bound in armorial calf; spine gold-tooled, lettered direct "HEVELII SELENOGR."; remains of two fore-edge ties; all edges stained blue-green. Does not include plate RRR; plate HHH/III misplaced between p. 528/529. Provenance: (1) Arms of the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (Clinton and other quarterings, Pelham in pretence) on both covers; the arms, on a quite similar binding, are shown in plate 33 of the Clumber library catalogue, v.2 (Sotheby & Co., 1937); (2) bookplate of A.E. Lownes on front pastedown. Lownes purchased the book on 4 Mar. 1940, as item 568 in an unidentified bookseller's catalogue (the clipped description is pasted next to Lownes's bookplate); the book was not included in the Clumber library sale 
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651 0 |a Moon  |v Early works to 1800 
651 0 |a Sun  |v Early works to 1800 
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700 1 |a Twenhusen, Helmick à,  |d approximately 1590-1660  |4 ill. 
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