Bayer, Johann (1572-1625) Uranometria

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Bayer, Johann (1572-1625) Uranometria. Ulm: Gorlini, 1661.
Folio, engraved title, and fifty-one double-page plates of the constellations, some marginal browning, bound in contemporary parchment over stiff boards, damage to head of spine, otherwise intact.
Bayer's was the first star atlas based on Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae Insturatae. He chose Greek letters to designate important stars, a practice still in use today.
Estimate $15,000-20,000

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