[Rarebooks] FS: Moxon's "A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography" London: 1686

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(SCIENCE) Moxon, Joseph.  A TUTOR TO ASTRONOMY AND GEOGRAPHY. Or an Easie and SpeedyWay to Know the Use of Both the Globes, Caelestial and Terrestrial. In SixBooks... With an Appendix Shewing the Use of the Ptolomaick Sphere. The FourthEdition Corrected and Enlarged. Whereunto Is Added the Antient Poetical Storiesof the Stars: Showing Reasons Why the Several Shapes and Forms Are Pictured onthe Celestial Globe. As Also a Discourse of the Antiquity, Progress andAugmentation of Astronomy. London: Printed by S. Roycroft, for Joseph Moxon.1686. Sm. 4to. (6),272,(8)pp. (including 1 page of publisher's ads). Illus.with an engraved frontispiece portrait, 12 engraved text plates, numerous textdrawings, and 3 pages of astronomical tables. Cont. paneled calf, rebacked inantique style, orig. red calf spine label laid down. Cont. ownership signatureand date (1691) on preliminary blank. A fine copy. $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
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