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GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo (1538-c.1621). De fabrica, et usu hemisphaerii uranici. Venice: Bernardo Basa, 1596.
2º (273 x 192mm). Title lettering and woodcut device of the sun in red and black, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, one headpiece, decorative initials. (Title lightly spotted and waterstained at corner tips, some marginal spotting, small stain affecting last two leaves, lacks the second part.) Early vellum (rebacked, new endpapers). Provenance: J. Drecker Bibliotheca Gnomonica (bookplate) – David B. Wheatland (booklabel, with release stamp of Harvard college).
FIRST EDITION of Gallucci's guide to the construction and use of the armillary sphere. This copy lacks the second part correctly called for by Adams, though not by EDIT16. Adams G-164; BL/STC Italian p.288; Riccardi I, 567 (dated 1569 in error).
2º (273 x 192mm). Title lettering and woodcut device of the sun in red and black, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, one headpiece, decorative initials. (Title lightly spotted and waterstained at corner tips, some marginal spotting, small stain affecting last two leaves, lacks the second part.) Early vellum (rebacked, new endpapers). Provenance: J. Drecker Bibliotheca Gnomonica (bookplate) – David B. Wheatland (booklabel, with release stamp of Harvard college).
FIRST EDITION of Gallucci's guide to the construction and use of the armillary sphere. This copy lacks the second part correctly called for by Adams, though not by EDIT16. Adams G-164; BL/STC Italian p.288; Riccardi I, 567 (dated 1569 in error).
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