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JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO (d.1256 [1244?]). Sphaere mundi, with gloss by Georgius de Monteferrato. Venice: [Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco] for Georgius de Monteferrato, 28 January 1500/01.
Chancery 4° (212 x 150mm). A-E4 F6 (A1r title, A1v editor's address to Accursio Mainerio, A2r text, F6r colophon, F6v tabula). 26 leaves, A2.3 reversed in binding. Full-page woodcut of a sphere on title, woodcut diagrams and initials from several sets. Type: 8:135G, 6:105R, 10:84R, 11:68G. (Light marginal dampstain, scattered spotting, a few hinges discreetly reinforced.) 20th-century flexible pasteboard covers (lightly dust-soiled).
A LATE BUT UNCOMMON INCUNABLE EDITION, the first with gloss by Girgio de Monteferrato, of the medieval text which continued to govern the study of astronomy and science until the mid 17th-century. HCR 14126; BMC V, 566 (IA.24536); Klebs 874.30; Essling 264; Sander 6668; IGI 5353; Goff J-421.
Chancery 4° (212 x 150mm). A-E
A LATE BUT UNCOMMON INCUNABLE EDITION, the first with gloss by Girgio de Monteferrato, of the medieval text which continued to govern the study of astronomy and science until the mid 17th-century. HCR 14126; BMC V, 566 (IA.24536); Klebs 874.30; Essling 264; Sander 6668; IGI 5353; Goff J-421.
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