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The work that revolutionised ocean navigation

[ZACUTO, Abraham Ben Samuel]. Ephemerides sive Almanach perpetuu[m].
(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, for Johannes Lucilius Santritter, October 1498. 4to. With a woodcut title page and numerous tables. 20th-century limp vellum, sewn on 2 thin vellum straps laced through the joints, with the manuscript name of the (wrong) author and year of publication on the spine. [122] ll. Full description
€ 90,000
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First edition of Valk's work on astronomy and the use of celestial and terrestial globes

[ZUMBACH VON KOESFELD, Lothar] and Gerard VALK (engraver and publisher). 't Werkstellige der sterre-konst ...
Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, [late 17th or early 18th century (ca. 1701?)]. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, and 4 folding engraved plates. Further with a few tables in the text, some woodcut decorated initials, and a woodcut floral tailpiece. Contemporary stiff orange-brown sprinkled paper boards. [1], [1 blank], [2], 140 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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