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London : Bloomsbury –Astronomy and Space

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Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale at Astronomy Books and Space Photographs on December 12th covers five centuries of extra-terrestial discoveries including a first edition by Galileo Galilei (1613) as well as colour views of the Moon from the NASA spacecraft Galileo (1992).



The earliest lot, and with an estimate of £40,000-60,000 potentially the most valuable, is a unique compendium of illustrated manuscript astronomical texts compiled in Italy, probably in Verona or Bologna around 1470. with its original covers, the volume (lot 1) was formerly in the collection of bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). 


There are three seminal works by Galileo, the earliest (lot 7) his first published endorsement of the Copernican system, 1613 (est. £8,000-12,000) and the third (lot 13 ) the first edition of his collected works,1655-56 (est. £3,500-5,000). 



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