1742 First Edition Vol 1 Only
ASTRONOMY IN FIVE BOOKS
By Roger Long
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Good
Format: Hardcover, quarto (4to 9 1⁄2 × 12 in 241 × 305 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: For the Author, Cambridge, England, 1742
Language: English
Illustrated By: Plates after designs by Roger Long; engraved by G. Vander Gucht.
Provenance: Ombersley Court Library, Worcestershire, the historic library of the Sandys family. Acquired directly by Books That Expand The Mind from its dispersal at Chorley’s, The September Auctions 2024, 17 September 2024, Lot ...
Collation: Vol. I only, 4to, pp. xvi, 356, with engraved frontispiece and 68 folding engraved plates (plates 1–68).
Dust Jacket: None, as issued
SKU: BTETM0002451
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 20, L: 25, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
PROVENANCE
Ombersley Court Library, Worcestershire, the historic library of the Sandys family. Acquired directly by Books That Expand The Mind from its dispersal at Chorley’s, The September Auctions 2024, 17 September 2024, Lot 327. Purchaser’s invoice retained with the acquisition records.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
COLLATION
Vol. I only, 4to, pp. xvi, 356, with engraved frontispiece and 68 folding engraved plates (plates 1–68).
Volume I only. Contemporary full calf, worn and rubbed, with surface abrasion and edge wear. Spine split and fragile, with the front board loose but still attached. Binding shaken but text block remains together. Internally generally clean for the period, with expected age toning and scattered foxing. Engraved frontispiece present. Complete with all 68 folding engraved plates, which remain a major point of interest and value. Some fold-outs may show the usual creasing and handling wear associated with large eighteenth-century plates. A sound, complete working copy in an unrestored contemporary binding, but with clear structural weakness at the front joint.
Binding:
Hardcover. Quarto (4to). Full contemporary calf.
Approx. 9 1/2 × 12 in. (241 × 305 mm).
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
HathiTrust / library record: Long, Roger, Astronomy, in five books. Cambridge: Printed for the author, 1742–1785.
Internet Archive / Wellcome digital copy of Vol. I (Books 1–2), 1742.
ESTC reference: N43194.
SYNOPSIS
A substantial mid-eighteenth-century English work on mathematical and practical astronomy, intended as a comprehensive treatment of astronomy together with related subjects including navigation and the use of maps and globes. Volume I contains the first two books of the work and is illustrated with a fine engraved frontispiece and numerous folding plates of instruments, globes, and astronomical diagrams. Later portions of the overall work were issued separately over subsequent decades.
AUTHOR BIO
Roger Long (1680–1770) was an English clergyman, mathematician, astronomer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Educated at Cambridge, he became a Fellow of Pembroke Hall and later served as Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He is best remembered for his ambitious scientific treatise Astronomy, in Five Books, and for designing the large hollow celestial globe, or “zodiac room,” at Pembroke, into which viewers could enter to observe the constellations and motions of the heavens. Though respected in his lifetime, he did not live to complete the whole work, which was later finished by Richard Dunthorne and William Wales.
ILLUSTRATOR
Plates after designs by Roger Long; engraved by G. Vander Gucht.
G. Vander Gucht is generally identified as Gerard van der Gucht (1696/7–1776), London engraver and printseller, son and pupil of the engraver Michael van der Gucht. The British Museum records him as an engraver born in London, active in book illustration and print production in the first half of the eighteenth century.
1742 First Edition Vol 1 Only
ASTRONOMY IN FIVE BOOKS
By Roger Long
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Good
Format: Hardcover, quarto (4to 9 1⁄2 × 12 in 241 × 305 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: For the Author, Cambridge, England, 1742
Language: English
Illustrated By: Plates after designs by Roger Long; engraved by G. Vander Gucht.
Provenance: Ombersley Court Library, Worcestershire, the historic library of the Sandys family. Acquired directly by Books That Expand The Mind from its dispersal at Chorley’s, The September Auctions 2024, 17 September 2024, Lot ...
Collation: Vol. I only, 4to, pp. xvi, 356, with engraved frontispiece and 68 folding engraved plates (plates 1–68).
Dust Jacket: None, as issued
SKU: BTETM0002451
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 20, L: 25, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
PROVENANCE
Ombersley Court Library, Worcestershire, the historic library of the Sandys family. Acquired directly by Books That Expand The Mind from its dispersal at Chorley’s, The September Auctions 2024, 17 September 2024, Lot 327. Purchaser’s invoice retained with the acquisition records.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
COLLATION
Vol. I only, 4to, pp. xvi, 356, with engraved frontispiece and 68 folding engraved plates (plates 1–68).
Volume I only. Contemporary full calf, worn and rubbed, with surface abrasion and edge wear. Spine split and fragile, with the front board loose but still attached. Binding shaken but text block remains together. Internally generally clean for the period, with expected age toning and scattered foxing. Engraved frontispiece present. Complete with all 68 folding engraved plates, which remain a major point of interest and value. Some fold-outs may show the usual creasing and handling wear associated with large eighteenth-century plates. A sound, complete working copy in an unrestored contemporary binding, but with clear structural weakness at the front joint.
Binding:
Hardcover. Quarto (4to). Full contemporary calf.
Approx. 9 1/2 × 12 in. (241 × 305 mm).
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
HathiTrust / library record: Long, Roger, Astronomy, in five books. Cambridge: Printed for the author, 1742–1785.
Internet Archive / Wellcome digital copy of Vol. I (Books 1–2), 1742.
ESTC reference: N43194.
SYNOPSIS
A substantial mid-eighteenth-century English work on mathematical and practical astronomy, intended as a comprehensive treatment of astronomy together with related subjects including navigation and the use of maps and globes. Volume I contains the first two books of the work and is illustrated with a fine engraved frontispiece and numerous folding plates of instruments, globes, and astronomical diagrams. Later portions of the overall work were issued separately over subsequent decades.
AUTHOR BIO
Roger Long (1680–1770) was an English clergyman, mathematician, astronomer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Educated at Cambridge, he became a Fellow of Pembroke Hall and later served as Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He is best remembered for his ambitious scientific treatise Astronomy, in Five Books, and for designing the large hollow celestial globe, or “zodiac room,” at Pembroke, into which viewers could enter to observe the constellations and motions of the heavens. Though respected in his lifetime, he did not live to complete the whole work, which was later finished by Richard Dunthorne and William Wales.
ILLUSTRATOR
Plates after designs by Roger Long; engraved by G. Vander Gucht.
G. Vander Gucht is generally identified as Gerard van der Gucht (1696/7–1776), London engraver and printseller, son and pupil of the engraver Michael van der Gucht. The British Museum records him as an engraver born in London, active in book illustration and print production in the first half of the eighteenth century.
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