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London: Typis Jacobi Flesher. Prostant Aput Gulielmum Morden, 1653. In Latin. Second edition (first edition in this form). Binding copy, complete but requiring rebinding. Three titles in one volume, illustrated with small woodcuts throughout, plus 4 plates of constellations in Sidereus Nuncius. The first book, Institutio Astronomica, compares the Ptolemaic and Compernican systems of the cosmos along with that of Tycho Brahe. The second, Sidereus Nuncius, describes Galileo's observations made with a telescope. The third focuses on optics and includes Kepler's design for an inverted astronomical telescope. Heavily worn leather binding, [14], 199, 173 pages, title page for the entire work in red and black, separate title pages for each section in black, book about 7 inches tall. Covers worn and detached with traces of old tape on the joint edge of the front cover, spine covering essentially absent, text complete, free endpapers absent, name of of Philippi Jones inside front…