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Astronomy - Sacrobosco, Johannes de. Sphera mundi noviter recognita cum commentariis & authoribus in hoc volumine contentis. With printer's mark and numerous woodcuts (some colored). Florence, Giunta, 1518. 1 nn., 253 (recte 235) num. Flexible parchment binding of the period (wavy and stained, back hinge replaced, upper corner of the front cover pasted over, endpapers renewed, clasp missing). Early collected edition of astronomical texts. - Houzeau-Lancaster I, 1642 - EDIT 16 CNCE 29259 - Essling 1975 - Contains Sacrobosco's "Sphaera mundi" and commentaries by Capuanus, Faber Stapulensis, Regiomontanus, Aliacus, Michael Scotus, Gerardus Cremonensis and others, partly based on Arabic sources. Also included is the first Latin printing of Theodosius' "De Sphaericis" after an Arabic version; the Greek Editio princeps did not appear until 1558. The collection is an excellent reflection of astronomical studies around 1500, including texts used by Copernicus. - Title fingerstained and with pale stamp, first leaves with tidemark in the binding, individual wormholes in the text, extended to a small passage in places, some old marginalia, generally clean. VAT: *
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Astronomy - Sacrobosco, Johannes de. Sphera mundi noviter recognita cum commentariis & authoribus in hoc volumine contentis. With printer's mark and numerous woodcuts (some colored). Florence, Giunta, 1518. 1 nn., 253 (recte 235) num. Flexible parchment binding of the period (wavy and stained, back hinge replaced, upper corner of the front cover pasted over, endpapers renewed, clasp missing). Early collected edition of astronomical texts. - Houzeau-Lancaster I, 1642 - EDIT 16 CNCE 29259 - Essling 1975 - Contains Sacrobosco's "Sphaera mundi" and commentaries by Capuanus, Faber Stapulensis, Regiomontanus, Aliacus, Michael Scotus, Gerardus Cremonensis and others, partly based on Arabic sources. Also included is the first Latin printing of Theodosius' "De Sphaericis" after an Arabic version; the Greek Editio princeps did not appear until 1558. The collection is an excellent reflection of astronomical studies around 1500, including texts used by Copernicus. - Title fingerstained and with pale stamp, first leaves with tidemark in the binding, individual wormholes in the text, extended to a small passage in places, some old marginalia, generally clean. VAT: *
