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Ephemeridum Opvs Ioannis Stoefleri

Ephemeridum Opvs Ioannis Stoefleri by STOEFFLER, Johann

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
Ephemeridum Opvs Ioannis Stoefleri
Author
STOEFFLER, Johann
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Tübingen: U. Morhart, 1531. First edition. Quarto (7 5/8 x 6 1/16 inches; 192 x 155 mm). Complete with 318 leaves. Leaf 38 blank as usual. Text in Latin. Title-page with woodcut portrait of Stoeffler, previously mistaken for Copernicus. With three large woodcut initials. With numerous tables and text diagrams throughout. We could find not other copy at auction in the past fifty years. Seventeenth-century full mottled calf, rebacked to style. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label. All edges speckled red. Newer endpapers. Title-page with some tiny holes, not affecting text. Pages fairly toned throughout. Evidence of a label that has been removed on the front pastedown. Binding is tight and sound. Overall a very good copy. "[Stoeffler's] were the best ephemerides of the day..." (The Book Nobody Read, Owen Gingerich). "The name ephemeris or ephemerides is generally reserved for a series of solar, lunar, and planetary positions running over several years. An almanac or calendar runs for a single year and usually contains ancillary astrological, meteorological, or practical information as well, and in this period the positions printed in most almanacs were simply copied out from some more fundamental ephemeris. Underlying each ephemeris is a set of parameters typically embodied in a group of handy computational tables, such as the Ptolemaic Alfonsine tables, the Copernican Prutenic tables, or the Keplerian Rudolphlne tables. In the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such tables and related computing procedures proliferated rapidly, as did competing ephemerides, and even more quite highly-derivative almanacs. The first major printed ephemerides were both calculated and published by Regiomontanus, the astronomer-printer of Nuremberg, in 1474. His calculations ran until 1506, and in due time they were continued by Pfaumen and Stoeffler until 1551. These positions were evidently based on the Alfonsine tables, for they yield the same characteristic error patterns in planetary longitudes as the Alfonsines do." (The Accuracy of Ephemerides, Owen Gingerich). Stoeffler (1452-1531), professor of astronomy at Tübingen University, was one of the first to show how the Julian calendar could be brought into harmony with astronomical events. He did, however, make one absurd prediction-that the Great Flood would occur again in 1524. There was great consternation because of this, and the people of Toulouse even went so far as to build an ark! Stoeffler, however, seems to have survived the failure of his prediction, for he published a new ephemeris in the year of his death. HBS 67685. $8,500.
Ledianye Nochi (Icy Nights)

Ledianye Nochi (Icy Nights) by Rozenfeld, Mikh. (Mikhail); [Illustrated by] Pernikov, Efim

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Seller: ZH BOOKS
Title
Ledianye Nochi (Icy Nights)
Author
Rozenfeld, Mikh. (Mikhail); [Illustrated by] Pernikov, Efim
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Moskva (Moscow): Molodaia Gvardiia, 1934. Second edition; 7" x 5"; pp. [5], 6-172, [4]; pictorial blue cloth over card stock wraps; illustrated with photographs; light fading to spine cover and margins; mild, uniform age-toning to pages; in very good or better condition. Icy Nights was Russian journalist Mikhail Rozenfeld's personal account of the Arctic rescue expedition of the icebreaker Malygin by EPRON (Special Operations Underwater Rescue Party). The book’s cover art was created by Constructivist artist and graphic designer Efim Pernikov (1903 - 1966). Apart from his illustrating numerous books and designing posters, he would go on to work as a frontline correspondent during WWII.
The Woman I Love (Three original photographs from the 1937 film)

The Woman I Love (Three original photographs from the 1937 film) by Anatole Litvak (director); Joseph Kessel (novel); Mary Borden (screenwriter); Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward (starring)

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Seller: Royal Books
Title
The Woman I Love (Three original photographs from the 1937 film)
Author
Anatole Litvak (director); Joseph Kessel (novel); Mary Borden (screenwriter); Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1937. Three vintage black-and-white double reference studio still photographs from the 1937 film. A dramatic love triangle occurs between two fellow pilots and one pilot's wife to the backdrop of WWI. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light toning overall and light soiling to the verso. Blue and red manuscript annotations to the verso and a stamp to the verso of image E-88.
CITY COUNTRY ABC

CITY COUNTRY ABC by Weisgard, Leonard; Gipson, Morrell

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Title
CITY COUNTRY ABC
Author
Weisgard, Leonard; Gipson, Morrell
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good plus.
Description
New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, 1946. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing of this charming alphabet that compares and contrasts the lives of a city boy and a country boy, written during America's postwar urbanization. 11'' x 7.25''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color. [48] pages. Binding with light edgewear, a bit of dampstaining to spine. One leaf with loss to top edge near gutter affecting the illustration, else clean and bright.

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