48 Stand 42 Antiquariat Michael Kühn Erdmannstr. 11, D-10827 Berlin Telefon +49-(0)30-86 39 69 34, Fax: +49-(0)30-86 39 69 55 e-mail: kuehn.rarebooks@arcor.de, www.kuehn-books.de Science, Medicine, Technology & History of Ideas Boscovich,  Ruggiero  Giuseppe.  Nouveaux  ouvrages appartenants principalement a l‘optique et a l‘astronomie. [=   Opera   pertinentia   ad   opticam,   et   astronomiam maxima]. 5 Vols. Bassano, & se vendent a Venise chez Remondini, 1785. Pergamentbde. d. Zt., Titelblätter mit alten Vorbesitzerstempeln u. hs. Signaturen, ein weiterer Stempel a. d. Titelblättern gelöscht.   € 6.800,- Erste   Ausgabe   eines   der   seltensten  Werke   des   jesuitischen Wissenschaftlers Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711 - 1787), eine Art Gesamtausgabe seiner kleineren Werke. „Bella edizione di questa pregevolissima raccolta di memorie ed opuscoli che ha meritamente procurata  tanta  fama  al  nostro  autore“  (Riccardi).-  DSB  II,326; Riccardi I,183; De Backer-S. I,1846, 100 (mit genauer Inhaltsangabe der einzelnen Bände). [Manuscript copy] [Felden, Johann von] Compendium Opticum.    Ex    praelectionibus    celebris    cuiusdam Mathematici   collectum.   Bremae   [Bremen]:   Typis Hermanni   Braueri,   illustr.   Scholae   Typogr.,   1665. [Bound   with:]   [Johann   v.   Felden]   Compendium doctrinae  sphaericae  succinctum  et  perbreve.-  Bremae [Bremen]:  Typis  Hermanni  Braueri,  illustr.  Scholae Typogr., 1666. 56 pp. both work interleaved with 26 and 28  leaves  with  contemporary  mss.  commentary  and addenda,  and  3  latin  manuscripts  of  30  leaves  with several  schematic  drawings.  Nineteenth  century  half calf, with few small worm-tracks. € 4.200,- Rare german works on optics & astronomy, first published in 1641 and in 1634 [?] with added manuscripts. This is the second edition of the optical work, and there seems to be a third edition, published in Wittenberg in 1691 [not in VD17, a ghost ?]. I have found only one other copy of this second edition worldwide: at Göttingen University also with mss. annotations. The chapters are: De radio optico recto; De catoptrica; de anaclastica. VD17 7: 692653W [this ed.]; KVK: only Göttingen [also a copy with annotations]; no copy in COPAC or OCLC [only Huntington Library has a 1641 ed.] II.) This is probably a reprint of an earlier work [VD17 7:658742A]. I could not locate another copy with same imprint. Beside this two very rare printed treatises for the usage in lectures, there are three manuscripts bound in. The printed works are annotated with comprehensive commentary and addenda on bound-in sheets.- Nicht bei Houzeau / Lanc. Hilderius, Edo.  Logistice  astronomica.  Avtore  Edone Hilderico Ieverensi. Witebergae [Wittenberg]: Schwer- tel,  1568.  8°  [154  x  90  mm].  [104]  leaves  with  text- woodcuts. Later eighteenth century speckled calf, spine gilt,  red  morocco  lettering  piece,  red  edges.  [bound with:]  Sprenger, Johann Theodor.  Succinta  Praxis  & Usus  Globi  Coelestis  &  Terrestris  …  .  Ienae  [Jena]: Crökerus, 1691. 72 [i.e. 56] pp. Small engraving on title- page & 7 astronomical figures [bound with:] Christoph Semler.  Supremo  Magnae  Britanniae  …  Methodus Inveniendae Longitudinis Maritimae Per Acus Verticales Magneticas,  …  M.  Christophoro  Semlero,  …  [Halle/ Saale]: Orphanotropheum, 1723. 8°. [2] Bl., 90 pp. with Frontispiece [showing Halle]   € 1.900,-