Exactissimae caelestium motuum ephemerides ad longitudinem almae urbis
Subtitle: et Tychonis Brahe hypotheses, ac deductas è caelo accuratè observationes ab anno 1641. ad annum 1700
By: auctore Andrea Argolo ... Praeter stellarum fixarum catalogum, extat tabula ortus, & occasus praecipuarum ad Borealis poli eleuationem à gr. uno ad sexaginta. Item supputatae singulis diebus in meridie lunae latitudines
Contributors: Frambotto, Paolo, -approximately 1665, printer; Hermann‏ IV.‏ Hessen-Kassel, Landgraf‏, 1607-1658, former owner; Schloss Nordkirchen (Germany); Librairie Thomas-Scheler
Publisher: typis Pauli Frambotti
Published: 1648
Place of publication: Patavii
Language: lat
Subjects: Ephemerides; Astronomy; Early works to 1800
Notes: Added illustrated t.p. of v. 1: Ephemerides : ab anno MDCXL ad annum MDCC / Andreae Argoli.

Vol. 1 has a folded engraved plate of the moon and index.

T.p. of v. 2: Andrea Argoli ... Ephemeridum iuxta Tychonis hypotheses et coelo deductas observationes tomus secundus. Ab anno 1641. ad 1670.

T.p. of v. 3: Ephemeris / Andreae Argoli; ad annum ab incarnato verbo 1671.

Errata in v. 2 and 3.

Printer's mark on last leaf of v. 1, on t.p. and last page of v. 2, and on last leaf of v. 3.

Houzeau, J.-C. Bibliographie générale de l’astronomie jusqu’en 1880, 15174

Riccardi, P. Biblioteca matematica italiana dalla origine della stampa ai primi anni del secolo XIX, I, 50

Gift; Thomas B. Settle; 2019.

Rare Book copy 1: Annotation on title page: "Ex nundinis F[ranco]f[urt]ensib[us] 1649 possidet Hermannus Hass a Landgravius" [Acquired at the 1649 Frankfurt Book Fair by Hermann, Landgraf of Hessen-Kassel]. From the library of the Nordkirchen castle, with its bookplate. Label of bookseller Librairie Thomas-Scheler on upper pastedown.

Rare Book copy 1: Bound in full parchment over boards; with gold-tooled panel design and centerpiece ornament on upper and lower covers; smooth, gold-tooled spine with title in manuscript; gilt text edges; fabric ties at foredge.

Rare Book copy 2: Modern binding of quarter parchment with orange-brown leather sides; parchment is waste from an earlier music manuscript.