![STADIUS, Johannes. Tabulae Bergenses aequalibilis et adparentis motus orbium coelestium. Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1560. Medallion portrait of the author on title, woodcut initials. With final blank. (Some browning and marginal staining, title frail and tattered at foremargin.) [Bound with:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0344_001(stadius_johannes_tabulae_bergenses_aequalibilis_et_adparentis_motus_or031926).jpg?w=1)
![STADIUS, Johannes. Tabulae Bergenses aequalibilis et adparentis motus orbium coelestium. Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1560. Medallion portrait of the author on title, woodcut initials. With final blank. (Some browning and marginal staining, title frail and tattered at foremargin.) [Bound with:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0344_002(stadius_johannes_tabulae_bergenses_aequalibilis_et_adparentis_motus_or031942).jpg?w=1)
![STADIUS, Johannes. Tabulae Bergenses aequalibilis et adparentis motus orbium coelestium. Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1560. Medallion portrait of the author on title, woodcut initials. With final blank. (Some browning and marginal staining, title frail and tattered at foremargin.) [Bound with:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0344_000(stadius_johannes_tabulae_bergenses_aequalibilis_et_adparentis_motus_or051240).jpg?w=1)
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STADIUS, Johannes. Tabulae Bergenses aequalibilis et adparentis motus orbium coelestium. Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1560. Medallion portrait of the author on title, woodcut initials. With final blank. (Some browning and marginal staining, title frail and tattered at foremargin.) [Bound with:]
CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). In Cl. Ptolemaei De astrorum iudiciis, aut (ut vulgo appellant) quadripartitae constructionis lib. IIII commentaria. Basel: Henricus Petri, March 1554. Medallion portrait of the author on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, Petri’s device on final verso. (Title slightly soiled, occasional dust soiling elsewhere, some browning, light marginal worming from quire ee to end.)
2 works in one volume, 2º (314 x 201mm). Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine titled in manuscript (some tears and repairs, ties lacking). Provenance: Johannes Piel, ‘Prudens dominorbitur astris/Anno 1571’ (inscription on front free endpaper; his note of purchase on title to second work, dated 1570; his manuscript annotations to both works, together with other annotations in later hands, one the same hand seen in two notes dated 1716 on front endpaper) – Michael Chasles (bookplate).
FIRST EDITIONS. The reputation of the Flemish astronomer, Stadius or Jan van Oysten, was based on his star tables, and the present publication reflects the fact that he worked in Cologne for a time. Cardano's commentary on the Quadripartitum of Ptolemy, a textbook of astrology, is known for having cast the horoscope of Jesus Christ, a passage marked with a cross by one of the annotators of this copy (see p. 163); this resulted in his imprisonment by the Inquisition on charges of heresy (see DSB III, p.65). Adams S-1625 & C-680; BL/STC German Books pp. 828 & 719; Houzeau and Lancaster 12733 & 4856; Riccardi I(i) 254.7: ‘rara edizione’ (2nd work); Zinner 2244 (1st work).
CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). In Cl. Ptolemaei De astrorum iudiciis, aut (ut vulgo appellant) quadripartitae constructionis lib. IIII commentaria. Basel: Henricus Petri, March 1554. Medallion portrait of the author on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, Petri’s device on final verso. (Title slightly soiled, occasional dust soiling elsewhere, some browning, light marginal worming from quire ee to end.)
2 works in one volume, 2º (314 x 201mm). Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine titled in manuscript (some tears and repairs, ties lacking). Provenance: Johannes Piel, ‘Prudens dominorbitur astris/Anno 1571’ (inscription on front free endpaper; his note of purchase on title to second work, dated 1570; his manuscript annotations to both works, together with other annotations in later hands, one the same hand seen in two notes dated 1716 on front endpaper) – Michael Chasles (bookplate).
FIRST EDITIONS. The reputation of the Flemish astronomer, Stadius or Jan van Oysten, was based on his star tables, and the present publication reflects the fact that he worked in Cologne for a time. Cardano's commentary on the Quadripartitum of Ptolemy, a textbook of astrology, is known for having cast the horoscope of Jesus Christ, a passage marked with a cross by one of the annotators of this copy (see p. 163); this resulted in his imprisonment by the Inquisition on charges of heresy (see DSB III, p.65). Adams S-1625 & C-680; BL/STC German Books pp. 828 & 719; Houzeau and Lancaster 12733 & 4856; Riccardi I(i) 254.7: ‘rara edizione’ (2nd work); Zinner 2244 (1st work).
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