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SCHEFFER, VITUS. 1648-1717. Coelum Poeticum, seu Sphaera Astronomica. Prague: The widow Catharine Czernoch, 1686.
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SCHEFFER, VITUS. 1648-1717.
Coelum Poeticum, seu Sphaera Astronomica. Prague: The widow Catharine Czernoch, 1686.
4to (193 x 145 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Groot incorporating globes, dedication to Johann Mark Georg, Count of Clary-Aldringen, large folding sheet with 2 engravings, each with 6 celestial gores (285 x 535 mm), bound in at the end, and two smaller terrestrial and celestial gore sheets, celestial dated 1686, each 180 x 315 mm, both tipped onto the final two leaves O1 and O2, double-page engraved diagram of globe horizon bars bound in after the title, incorporating dedications. Some light browning heavier on a early leaves. Later limp vellum.
A rare complete copy of this obscure work on globe-making by a Jesuit priest from Prague, Vitus Scheffer. The text explores the allegorical interpretation of constellations and their mythological background. Scheffer was born in Austria, became a member of the Jesuit Order, and was a prolific writer on theology, mathematics and philosophy. He taught at several Jesuit Gymnasiums, and studied in Prague many times. The "Coelum" is a rare work: of the 4 copies that have appeared at auction in the last 55 years, only one other has had the full complement of gore sheets. Houzeau/Lancaster 178.
4to (193 x 145 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Groot incorporating globes, dedication to Johann Mark Georg, Count of Clary-Aldringen, large folding sheet with 2 engravings, each with 6 celestial gores (285 x 535 mm), bound in at the end, and two smaller terrestrial and celestial gore sheets, celestial dated 1686, each 180 x 315 mm, both tipped onto the final two leaves O1 and O2, double-page engraved diagram of globe horizon bars bound in after the title, incorporating dedications. Some light browning heavier on a early leaves. Later limp vellum.
A rare complete copy of this obscure work on globe-making by a Jesuit priest from Prague, Vitus Scheffer. The text explores the allegorical interpretation of constellations and their mythological background. Scheffer was born in Austria, became a member of the Jesuit Order, and was a prolific writer on theology, mathematics and philosophy. He taught at several Jesuit Gymnasiums, and studied in Prague many times. The "Coelum" is a rare work: of the 4 copies that have appeared at auction in the last 55 years, only one other has had the full complement of gore sheets. Houzeau/Lancaster 178.