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ZUCCONI, Lodovico (1706-1783). De heliometri structura et usu … De semita, numero, et figura omnium ferme macularum, quae apparuerunt in Solis disco, a mense Aprili anni 1754. Ad mensem Majum anni 1757. Venice: Dominico Lovisa, 1760.
4° (291 x 219mm). 22 engraved plates. (Title spotted, soil mark to title verso and margin of A2 recto.) Contemporary cartone alla rustica, manuscript title and later label on spine, uncut (light soiling).
AN ATTRACTIVE, UNCUT COPY of a rarely encountered book. Zucconi’s observations of sunspots observed from Venice between 1754 and 1757 are meticulously recorded on 20 large copperplates. The other two plates depict instruments in his observatory. FIRST EDITION. Riccardi I(ii) 673.
4° (291 x 219mm). 22 engraved plates. (Title spotted, soil mark to title verso and margin of A2 recto.) Contemporary cartone alla rustica, manuscript title and later label on spine, uncut (light soiling).
AN ATTRACTIVE, UNCUT COPY of a rarely encountered book. Zucconi’s observations of sunspots observed from Venice between 1754 and 1757 are meticulously recorded on 20 large copperplates. The other two plates depict instruments in his observatory. FIRST EDITION. Riccardi I(ii) 673.
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