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SCHRECKENFUCHS, Erasmus Oswald (1511-1579). Commentaria in novas theoricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii. Basel: Henricus Petri, 1556. Large woodcut title vignette, numerous woodcuts in text, 3 large folding tables. Extra illustrated with 8 woodcut diagrams.
[Bound with:] SCULTETUS, Batholomeo (1540-1614). Gnomonice de solariis. Gorlitz: Matthiae Menii Dantiscani, 1572. Title in red and black, woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, numerous woodcuts in the text.
2 works in one volume, 2° (310 x 200mm). (Some minor dampstaining to top margins, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, paper spine labels (lacking clasps, dampstain to lower cover, endpapers renewed). Provenance: indistinct stamp on title verso.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO WORKS ON ASTRONOMY AND SUNDIALS. Schreckenfuchs was an Austrian astronomer, humanist, and student of Sebastian Munster. This commentary on the work of Georg von Peuerbach is believed to be the first to contain a series of three-dimensional astronomical diagrams. Scultetus was a German astronomer and cartographer. Adams S-730; Houzeau and Lancaster 2572 & 11376.
[Bound with:] SCULTETUS, Batholomeo (1540-1614). Gnomonice de solariis. Gorlitz: Matthiae Menii Dantiscani, 1572. Title in red and black, woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, numerous woodcuts in the text.
2 works in one volume, 2° (310 x 200mm). (Some minor dampstaining to top margins, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, paper spine labels (lacking clasps, dampstain to lower cover, endpapers renewed). Provenance: indistinct stamp on title verso.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO WORKS ON ASTRONOMY AND SUNDIALS. Schreckenfuchs was an Austrian astronomer, humanist, and student of Sebastian Munster. This commentary on the work of Georg von Peuerbach is believed to be the first to contain a series of three-dimensional astronomical diagrams. Scultetus was a German astronomer and cartographer. Adams S-730; Houzeau and Lancaster 2572 & 11376.
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