Engraved title page.

Half title: Andreæ Tacquet e Societate Iesu Cylindrica et Annularia.

Second work has special half title: Dissertatio physico-mathematrica de circulorum volutionibus / authore P. Andrea Tacquet in Louaniensi Collegio Societatis Iesu matheseos professore.

A fifth book was later published under title: Andreæ Tacquet Antuerpiensis e Societate Iesu Cylindricorum et annularium liber quintus addendus ad quatuor priores anno 1651. editos. Antuerpiæ : Apud Iacobum Meursium, 1659.

Plates unsigned, but likely engraved by Jacob van Meurs (Iacobus Meursius), who was an engraver as well as a bookseller.

Collation: 4to: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ² A-2N⁴ [$2 ( -ĩ2, 2F2,3) signed; missigning F3 as E3, Z2 as Z3]; 154 leaves, pp. [20 unn.] 1-226 [227-229] 230-284 [285-288] + plates, "Schematismus I-Schematismus XVIII", printed as throwouts to be bound with I-IX preceding the title and X-XVIII at end, per instructions to the binder (in Latin, French, and Dutch) on p. [286].

Errata: p. 285 and p. [287]-288.

Backer-Sommervogel, VII, col. 1806, no. 3

Grassi, G. Union cat. of European astronomical observatories, p. 678