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BAROZZI, Francesco. Cosmographia in quatuor libros distribute. Venice: Gratioso Perchacino, 1585.
8° (168 x 104mm). Printer’s device on title, 3 folding engraved plates, correction slip pasted over nearly 2 lines of text op p.45 and 2 slips on p.83, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, historiated and ornamental initials. (Title with extensive repairs, affecting a few letters of text, second plate with clean but long closed tear, some leaves with worm track in margins, some spotting.) Modern vellum.
FIRST EDITION of this work, based on Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi. It contains ‘chapters on meteorology and physical geography. Barocius noted eighty-four errors in Sacrobosco’s work, largely, according to Thorndike, matters of definition and order of treatment’ (DSB). Edit16 CNCE 4262; Index Aurel. 113.347; Riccardi I, 84-85.
8° (168 x 104mm). Printer’s device on title, 3 folding engraved plates, correction slip pasted over nearly 2 lines of text op p.45 and 2 slips on p.83, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, historiated and ornamental initials. (Title with extensive repairs, affecting a few letters of text, second plate with clean but long closed tear, some leaves with worm track in margins, some spotting.) Modern vellum.
FIRST EDITION of this work, based on Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi. It contains ‘chapters on meteorology and physical geography. Barocius noted eighty-four errors in Sacrobosco’s work, largely, according to Thorndike, matters of definition and order of treatment’ (DSB). Edit16 CNCE 4262; Index Aurel. 113.347; Riccardi I, 84-85.
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