Tychonis Brahe Opera Omnia, Tomi Quarti, Fasciculus Prior: De Mundi Aetherei Recentioribus Phaenomenis Liber Secundus (1588)

Exact reproduction of original printed at Uraniborg in 1588. 376pp, including figures, charts etc. In mid blue light card covers with yapped edges, black titles front and spine. Deckled edges. Tall 4to. . Card covers are rubbed and faded at edges and joints, with some nicks at edges, and a little loss at tail of a sunned spine. Text block edges a little toned. Call number written on spine, bookplate of Bristol University Library, and withdrawn stamp, inside front cover, no other library markings. A few pages uncut else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Plans to reproduce the collected works of the Danish renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), were interrupted by the First World War and this volume was published on its own. It contains Tycho’s treatise ‘De Mundi Atherei Recentioribus Phaenomenis (Second Book about Recent Phenomena in the Celestial World) which was originally printed in Uraniborg in 1588. It deals mostly with the 1577 comet – the brightest of the seven comets appearing during Tycho’s career as an observer, his observations dispelling the Aristotelian doctrine which he had supported up to this time.