LUBIENIECKI, S. Theatrum Cometicum, duabus partibus constans, I. Quarum prior continet epistolas & communicationes variorum per Europam clarissimorum virorum, cum quibus auctor de hoc argumento contulit (…). 2. Posterior exhibet historiam universalem omnium cometarum a tempori diluvii ad ann. 1665 (…). Leyden, P. v.d. Meersche, 1681. 3 in 2 vols. (24), 888, (2), 889-966, (4); (12), 464; (4), 78, (2) pp. W. 3 (later added) engr. ti-pp, & 77 (of 84?) engr. plates, partly folded/double-p. Fol. Cont. vellum. (Rebacked in mod. vellum, 1 ti. & 1 plate loose, 2 portrs. & 7 (?) plates lack, last 2 lvs. (addenda & index) lack, first plate bound upside down, margins cut, a few marg. stains, slightly browned, but a clean set with the plates in good condition).
Second edition (same as the first), of a work that was originally published in Amsterdam in 1666-68. The first part contains a series of 38 substantial reports on sightings of comets during the fall that occurred between Dec. 1664 and Jan. 1665, which excited widespread scientific and popular interest at that time. The second part provides a chronology of 415 comet-sightings from the flood (the first report is dated to 2312 BC) to 1665, with commentaries, drawn from a range of historical sources. Stanislaw Lubienicki (1623-75)- was a Polish aristocrat, Socinian theologist, historian, astronomer and writer. - Poggendorff I, 1508; Thorndike VIII, 336; Graesse IV, 270; Crawford Libr., p. 100; Honeymann Coll., 2052. Not in Houzeau/Lancaster.€ 4000
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