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ABEN EZRA, Abraham, Rabbi (c.1090-1164/7). De nativitatibus. - Henricus BATE (1246-c.1310). Magistralis compositio astrolabii. -Descriptio instrumenti pro equatione planetarum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 24 December, 1485.
Superchancery 4 (266 x 155mm). Collation: a-c8 d6 (a1r blank, a2v full-page woodcut diagram, a2r Aben Ezra text, c5r Bate text, d6r colophon, d6r blank). 30 leaves. 38 lines. Type: 4:76G. 14 diagrams in the text printed from 4 blocks, white-on-black initials from several sets.
FIRMINUS DE BELLAVALLE (fl.1345). Opusculum repertorii prognosticon in mutationes aeris. - HIPPOCRATES (attributed to). Libellus de medicorum astrologia. Translated by Petrus de Abano (c.1250-c.1318). Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, [before 4 November], 1485.
Super-chancery 4. Collation: a-e8 f10 (a1 blank, a2r text, f6v Hippocrates incipit, d10r colophon, d10v blank). 50 leaves. 38 lines, printed foliation. Type: 9:130G, 4:76G. Woodcut white-on-black and lombard initials.
2 works in one. (Some light spotting, light dampstain at lower inside corner.) Early 16th-century calf tooled in blind with vertical hunting rolls, 2 fore-edge clasps, a remboitage (restored), modern brown morocco box. Provenance: occasional early marginal annotations; George Abrams (booklabel, sale Sotheby's, 16 November 1989, lot 1).
FIRST EDITION of all works; the pseudo-Hippocrates text had appeared earlier in a different translation. Aben Ezra was a noted mathematician and astrologer, whose work formed the basis for much European knowledge of Arabic scientific learning. While Firmin de Bellavalle was famous in his own day as an astrologer and was instrumental in proposing calendar reforms under Clement VI in the 1340s, the contemporary owner of the present copy of his work appears to have been most interested in the seventh chapter, which concerns the transformation of gold.
A fresh copy, significantly larger than the British Library copies, preserving many deckle edges. I: HC *21; BMC V, 291 (IA. 20551); GW 113; Klebs 4.1; IGI 5; Essling 319; Sander 2; Goff A-7. II: HCR 13393; BMC V, 291 (IA. 20544-5); GW 9983; Klebs 406.1; IGI 8082; Goff P-1006.
Superchancery 4 (266 x 155mm). Collation: a-c
FIRMINUS DE BELLAVALLE (fl.1345). Opusculum repertorii prognosticon in mutationes aeris. - HIPPOCRATES (attributed to). Libellus de medicorum astrologia. Translated by Petrus de Abano (c.1250-c.1318). Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, [before 4 November], 1485.
Super-chancery 4. Collation: a-e
2 works in one. (Some light spotting, light dampstain at lower inside corner.) Early 16th-century calf tooled in blind with vertical hunting rolls, 2 fore-edge clasps, a remboitage (restored), modern brown morocco box. Provenance: occasional early marginal annotations; George Abrams (booklabel, sale Sotheby's, 16 November 1989, lot 1).
FIRST EDITION of all works; the pseudo-Hippocrates text had appeared earlier in a different translation. Aben Ezra was a noted mathematician and astrologer, whose work formed the basis for much European knowledge of Arabic scientific learning. While Firmin de Bellavalle was famous in his own day as an astrologer and was instrumental in proposing calendar reforms under Clement VI in the 1340s, the contemporary owner of the present copy of his work appears to have been most interested in the seventh chapter, which concerns the transformation of gold.
A fresh copy, significantly larger than the British Library copies, preserving many deckle edges. I: HC *21; BMC V, 291 (IA. 20551); GW 113; Klebs 4.1; IGI 5; Essling 319; Sander 2; Goff A-7. II: HCR 13393; BMC V, 291 (IA. 20544-5); GW 9983; Klebs 406.1; IGI 8082; Goff P-1006.