This copy, in rebacked panelled calf of the period, sold at £10,000, while another seen in a May 24-25 Hamburg sale held by Ketterer Kunst, a good copy in modern morocco with a specimen of Neil Armstrong's signature mounted on the flyleaf, made €19,000 (£13,380).
(A future Shirburn Castle science sale will include a very rare account of the fire that destroyed Hevelius's observatory and work).
Hevelius and Selenographia - all his own work
SCIENCE books in a June 24 sale held by Bloomsbury Auctions included a 1647, Danzig first of Hevelius’ Selenographia, the first lunar atlas, illustrated with a portrait and 111 plates (one with volvelle), mostly engraved by the author from drawings that he made in the observatory that he had equipped with instruments he had built himself.