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UMAR IBN AL-FARRUKHAN AL-TABARI (762-812). Omar Tiberiadis Astronomi Preclarissimi Liber de nativitatibus & interrogationibus. Venice: G.B. Sessa, 26 March 1503.
4° (203 x 142mm). Large allegorical woodcut on title of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, Sessa's woodcut device at foot of title and last leaf, seven woodcut diagrams. (Title remargined at foot with slight loss to device, slightly browned.) Modern binding from a 15th-century manuscript antiphonal leaf.
FIRST EDITION of this astronomical treatise edited by Luca Gaurico. It was incorporated into later editions of Firmicus Maternus' De astronomicon. Sander 5181; Essling 1378; DSB 13 p.538.
4° (203 x 142mm). Large allegorical woodcut on title of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, Sessa's woodcut device at foot of title and last leaf, seven woodcut diagrams. (Title remargined at foot with slight loss to device, slightly browned.) Modern binding from a 15th-century manuscript antiphonal leaf.
FIRST EDITION of this astronomical treatise edited by Luca Gaurico. It was incorporated into later editions of Firmicus Maternus' De astronomicon. Sander 5181; Essling 1378; DSB 13 p.538.