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Kepler’s Most Influential Work

£75,000 first edition, a fine copy, of the work which ‘ranks next to Ptolemy’s Almagest and Copernicus’ De revolutionibus... [It] is the first systematic complete presentation of astronomy to introduce the idea of modern celestial mechanics founded by Kepler’ (Caspar, Kepler, p 297)

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Olympia 2012. The ABA's London International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held in the superb National Hall at Olympia. The National Hall provides the Fair with much more space – both for circulation and more stands. ¶ Read more...

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In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared…to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free of them there.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)