Libra astronomica y philosophica en que d. Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora ... examina no solo lo que a su manifiesto philosophico contra los cometas opuso el r.p. Eusebio Francisco Kino de la Compania de Jesus
Subtitle: sino lo que el mismo r.p. opino, y pretendio haver demostrado en su Exposicion astronomica del cometa del año de 1681 ...
Publisher: Por los herederos de la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon
Published: 1690
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Comets; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Philosophy
Notes: "An astronomical treatise, dealing largely with the extraordinary comet of the year 1680, attacking Kino's (the Californian missionary and explorer) Theory on the subject ."--(Cf. extract from Maggs catal. item 1971, cat 492. in P.F., which gives a number of quotations from the work).

Rare Book copy: Contemporary limp vellum binding, manuscript title on spine, remnants of ties, sprinkled edges.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Felipe Rodríguez de Ledesma (d. 1758), with his ownership inscriptions.

Rare Book copy: Manuscript annotations on rear flyleaf, likely by subsequent owner, noting the appearance of two comets: the 1758-1759 comet predicted by Edmund Halley (Halley's Comet) and that of August 1769 (Napoleon's Comet).

Wagners, 62a