Full imprint information given at end of title: opus hoc ad usus præsentium & posteritatis, typis, numericis propriis, cæteris, & prælo Jonæ Saurii, reip. Ulmanæ typographi, in publicum extulit, & typographicis operis Ulmæ curator affuit.

Work planned and initial steps begun by Tycho Brahe who was also responsible for the selection of the title.

Represents the third issue of the first preliminary gathering ():(, p. [1-8], 1st count) and the first issue of the second preliminary gathering (2):(, p. [9-16], 1st count). For details see Caspar.

Includes: Sportula (p. 121-125, 2nd count; p. [1-3], 3rd count) and folded world map. Some copies also include: Appendix, edited and published by the author's son-in-law, Jacob Bartsch, in Sagan, 1630, shortly after Kepler's death.

Main body of text printed in Ulm, 1627; the first gathering ():(), in its third issue, printed in Ulm, 1628; and the Sportula printed in Görlitz, 1629, according to Caspar. Its colophon, p. [2], 3rd count, reads: Typis Saganensibus. Anno 1629.

First plate (frontispiece) dated Norimbergæ, A:o 1627, but issued in 1628; second plate (world map, by Philipp Eckebrecht) dated Norimbergæ, A:o 1630, but issued much later, after 1658; it is dedicated to Emperor Leopold who ruled from 1658-1705; see Caspar and Wroth.

Signatures: ):(-2):(⁴ a-q⁴ (leaf b3 signed as: "Aa3") A-N⁴ O⁸ ():(1 verso, q4 verso, O8 verso blank)

Pages 12-13, 2nd count, misnumb.: "4-5"

Plates unnumbered. Text illustrations p. [78], 2nd count, numbered: I-VIII.

Errata (p. [1-2], 3rd count)

Caption title for Sportula section: Joannis Keppleri Sportula Genethliacis missa de Tabularum Rudolphi uso in computationibus astrologicis: Cum modo dirigendi novo & naturali (p. 121, 2nd count; text covers p. 121-125, 2nd count, and, on p. [1-2], 3rd count: Notæ et animadversiones nonnullæ ad præcepta Tabularum Rudolphi)

The astronomical tables are on p. 2-118 and p. 119 (misnumb.: "115"), 4th count.

World map displayed in one central full circle and two outer semicircles; America is represented on the left (western) semicircle, the left (western) portion of the central circle and the upper right portion of the right (eastern) semicircle.

JCB Lib. cat., additions 1471-1700, 27.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 629/77.

Houzeau & Lancaster 12754; 5118.

Caspar, M. Bib. Kepleriana, 79.

Wroth, L.C. The early cartography of the Pacific, no. 80; p.196-197.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary paper boards.