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Blaeu, Willem. 1571-1638.
Institution Astronomique de l'usuage des globes et Spheres Celestes & Terrestres Amsterdam: J. and C. Blaeu, 1642.

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Blaeu, Willem. 1571-1638.

Institution Astronomique de l'usuage des globes et Spheres Celestes & Terrestres Amsterdam: J. and C. Blaeu, 1642.
4to (200 x 155 mm). 2 parts in one volume, letterpress general title with woodcut printers device, two section titles with globe diagrams, numerous woodcut illustrations. Some light worming to lower margins throughout some touching text, occasional light browning. Contemporary Dutch calf, rubbed and bumped, foot of spine chipped, upper joint cracked, lower joint starting.

FIRST EDITION in French of Blaeu's popular treatise on the astronomical use of globes. The work was first printed in Dutch by Willem Blaeu in 1620, but here reissued by his two sons, as an adjunct to their cartographical business selling atlases and globes. Houzeau/Lancaster 9714.

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