De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus. Johannes Petreius, Nuremberg, 1543. First edition, folio, pp. 406. Original calf binding with titles and ornaments in gilt. Marbled endpapers, woodcut initials and typographic ornaments. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. This work first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.
