A spread from the Theatrum Cometicum…, £9500 at Bloomsbury Auctions.
A ‘Glory of Science’ sale held by Bloomsbury Auctions (24/18/12% buyer’s premium) on September 14 included books, prints, photographs, letters, etc., and was one in which astronomy and space travel played a significant part where higher bids were concerned.
Bid to £9500 was a 1681 Leiden edition of Stanislaus Lubieniecki’s Theatrum Cometicum…, an exhaustive work on comets by a Polish aristocrat that had been first published in Amsterdam in 1666-68.