![ASTRONOMY – GEMMA FRISIUS, Reiner (1508-1555). De principijs Astronomiae & Cosmographiae. Cologne: Cholinus, 1578. Device and some red colouring on title, full-page woodcut and 2 diagrams. (Blank piece cut from title and repaired, lightly dampstained at the beginning.) [Bound with:] EUCLID. Elementorum geometricorum libri sex. Ingolstadt: Eder, 1617. Edited by Johannes Lanz, device on title, numerous diagrams in text. 17th-century vellum (covers scratched and scored). Provenance: Sotheby’s 14 December 1981, lot 276.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12140_0255_000(astronomy_gemma_frisius_reiner_de_principijs_astronomiae_cosmographiae054910).jpg?w=1)
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ASTRONOMY – GEMMA FRISIUS, Reiner (1508-1555). De principijs Astronomiae & Cosmographiae. Cologne: Cholinus, 1578. Device and some red colouring on title, full-page woodcut and 2 diagrams. (Blank piece cut from title and repaired, lightly dampstained at the beginning.) [Bound with:] EUCLID. Elementorum geometricorum libri sex. Ingolstadt: Eder, 1617. Edited by Johannes Lanz, device on title, numerous diagrams in text. 17th-century vellum (covers scratched and scored). Provenance: Sotheby’s 14 December 1981, lot 276.
[Sold with:] Partenio Nicolò GIANNETTASIO (1648-1715). Universalis cosmograhpiae [sic] elementa. Naples: J. Raillard, 1688. 12° (138 x 72mm). Engraved frontispiece and 16 folding plates. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges (lightly rubbed). [And:] Joannes Baptista CHIODINUS. Praxis sphaerica clarissima. Venice: 1615. 8° (150 x 95mm). Woodcut diagrams. (Dampstained, heaviest at beginning.) Modern boards. [And:] WILLIAM OF CONCHES (c.1090-after 1154). Small 4° (195 x 146mm). (Some light browning and damspstaining, this latter heavier to gathering H through to end.) Modern flexible vellum. [And:] [Cesare LAURENTI and] Ilario FRUMENTI. Caelestium orbium armoniam. Rome: 1617. 4° (215 x 160mm). Engraved title, text within elaborate typographic ornamental borders. (Occasional faint browning and offsetting.) Modern wrappers.
GROUP OF RARE LATIN ASTRONOMICAL TREATISES, the last mentioned being the libretto of the only surviving example of a musical academic defence that was used in 16th-century Rome.
[Sold with:] Partenio Nicolò GIANNETTASIO (1648-1715). Universalis cosmograhpiae [sic] elementa. Naples: J. Raillard, 1688. 12° (138 x 72mm). Engraved frontispiece and 16 folding plates. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges (lightly rubbed). [And:] Joannes Baptista CHIODINUS. Praxis sphaerica clarissima. Venice: 1615. 8° (150 x 95mm). Woodcut diagrams. (Dampstained, heaviest at beginning.) Modern boards. [And:] WILLIAM OF CONCHES (c.1090-after 1154). Small 4° (195 x 146mm). (Some light browning and damspstaining, this latter heavier to gathering H through to end.) Modern flexible vellum. [And:] [Cesare LAURENTI and] Ilario FRUMENTI. Caelestium orbium armoniam. Rome: 1617. 4° (215 x 160mm). Engraved title, text within elaborate typographic ornamental borders. (Occasional faint browning and offsetting.) Modern wrappers.
GROUP OF RARE LATIN ASTRONOMICAL TREATISES, the last mentioned being the libretto of the only surviving example of a musical academic defence that was used in 16th-century Rome.
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