Bound in contemporary vellum, it also contained firsts of two of the author’s other astronomical works.
Sold for $65,000 (£44,830) was an exceptional copy, bound in contemporary red morocco gilt, of Hevelius’ acclaimed study of comets, published in Danzig in 1668 as Cometographia. This was an ex-John Rylands Library copy that in 1988 Sotheby’s London sale of duplicates made £5800.
Hevelius’ Selenographia...
Sold at $75,000 (£51,725), at the Freilich sale which took place at Sotheby’s New York on January 10 and 11, was a superb copy of the first complete lunar atlas, Hevelius’ Selenographia... of 1647.
