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Parisiis, Sumptibus Authoris, 1641.. TITLE CONTINUED: Annorum 15, ab anno 1637. incipientes, ubi sex anni priores e fontibus Lansbergianis, reliqui vero e numeris Tychoni-Keplerianis eruuntur, quibus accesserunt. In priori parte. 1. Isagoge in astrologiam. 2. De aeris mutatione. 3. Doctrina primi mobilis exquisitè demonstrata. In secunda parte. 1. Usus tabularum Astronomicarum pro rebus omnibus ad astronomiam spectantibus instituendis. 2. De crisium mysterio tractatus. 3. Gnomonices liber unus, ubi scioterica delineandi horologia quocunque modo vel declinantia, vel inclinantia methodus omnium & facillima & brevissima tabularum ope, traditur. Authore Natal. Durret, Cosmographo Regio, ac Eminentiss. Card. Richel. 1641, Latin text, 4to, approximately 245 x 185 mm, 9¾ x 7¼ inches, engraved architectural title page to the first part by Pierre Lombard, with small portraits of Tycho Brahe, Lansbergius and C. Ptolomaeus, engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, pages: [12], 1-110, 1-181, [1], 1-44, 1-48, 1-64, followed by tables; [8], 1-56, 1-44, [12], 1-168, 1- 263, [5], with divisional title pages. Bound in modern blind panelled calf, raised bands to spine with blind motif in compartments, gilt lettered red morocco label. Edge repair with old paper to blank side of title page and engraved title, light damp stain to lower outer corner of first 8 leaves, including both title pages, occasional very pale damp stain to fore-edge margins, 2 lower margin corners very neatly repaired, 2 pages slightly stained on text, no loss of legibility, 1 brief marginal note, some margins to the tables trimmed close, a few with loss of page number and just shaved at fore-edges, pale age-browning throughout. A very good copy. Noël Duret or Natalis Durrett, born in Montbrison in 1590, died in Paris in 1650, was a French mathematician and astronomer, cosmographer of King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. See: Sotheby's Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Part IV No. 678. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.