ALBUMASAR. Introductorium in astronomiam [translated by Hermannus Dalmata]. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 February 1489. 4to, 188 x 140mm. (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.), modern red morocco, covers panelled with single gilt fillet, upper cover gilt-lettered, spine in five gilt-panelled compartments, nineteenth-century marbled paper wrappers bound in at end, joints and extremities rubbed, inner hinges cracked, lacking fol. e1, title-leaf frayed and soiled, small wormholes through text block in first 3 quires catching a few letters, occasional offsetting from coloring, small adhesive spot on b8v-c1r obscuring 4 letters on b8v, some foxing, dampstaining at beginning and end, marginal soiling. Collation: a-h8 i6. 69 leaves (of 70, lacking e1). Types: 9:130 (title), 8:90R (headings of some woodcuts), 4:76G (text). 40-41 lines. 46 woodcuts (2 half-page, the remainder smaller) mainly of zodiacal figures and including 6 astronomical diagrams, opening 8-line woodcut initial, 7-line and smaller initials throughout, woodcuts and initials crudely colored in an early hand. FIRST EDITION.The 15 cuts showing allegorical figures of the planets are reduced versions of seven woodcuts used by Ratdolt in Johannes de Thwrocz, Chronica Hungarorum (Augsburg: E. Ratdolt for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488, Goff T-361). HC 612*; Pellechet 415; Polain (B) 105; Schreiber 3075; Proctor 1880; BMC II, 382; Stillwell Science 8; GW 840; Goff A-359.Provenance: A few early marginal notes, more numerous eighteenth-century marginalia (largely cropped), foliation in the same hand -- Leo Olschki, bookseller's ticket with shelfmark 13550 inside front wrapper (bound at end), same shelfmark on lower wrapper -- "M. A. Principis Burghesii", armorial bookplate inside same wrapper -- Edmund McClure, bookplate.

GENERAL MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS

ALBUMASAR. Introductorium in astronomiam [translated by Hermannus Dalmata]. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 February 1489. 4to, 188 x 140mm. (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.), modern red morocco, covers panelled with single gilt fillet, upper cover gilt-lettered, spine in five gilt-panelled compartments, nineteenth-century marbled paper wrappers bound in at end, joints and extremities rubbed, inner hinges cracked, lacking fol. e1, title-leaf frayed and soiled, small wormholes through text block in first 3 quires catching a few letters, occasional offsetting from coloring, small adhesive spot on b8v-c1r obscuring 4 letters on b8v, some foxing, dampstaining at beginning and end, marginal soiling. Collation: a-h8 i6. 69 leaves (of 70, lacking e1). Types: 9:130 (title), 8:90R (headings of some woodcuts), 4:76G (text). 40-41 lines. 46 woodcuts (2 half-page, the remainder smaller) mainly of zodiacal figures and including 6 astronomical diagrams, opening 8-line woodcut initial, 7-line and smaller initials throughout, woodcuts and initials crudely colored in an early hand. FIRST EDITION. The 15 cuts showing allegorical figures of the planets are reduced versions of seven woodcuts used by Ratdolt in Johannes de Thwrocz, Chronica Hungarorum (Augsburg: E. Ratdolt for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488, Goff T-361). HC 612*; Pellechet 415; Polain (B) 105; Schreiber 3075; Proctor 1880; BMC II, 382; Stillwell Science 8; GW 840; Goff A-359. Provenance: A few early marginal notes, more numerous eighteenth-century marginalia (largely cropped), foliation in the same hand -- Leo Olschki, bookseller's ticket with shelfmark 13550 inside front wrapper (bound at end), same shelfmark on lower wrapper -- "M. A. Principis Burghesii", armorial bookplate inside same wrapper -- Edmund McClure, bookplate.

细节

ALBUMASAR. Introductorium in astronomiam [translated by Hermannus Dalmata]. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 February 1489. 4to, 188 x 140mm. (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.), modern red morocco, covers panelled with single gilt fillet, upper cover gilt-lettered, spine in five gilt-panelled compartments, nineteenth-century marbled paper wrappers bound in at end, joints and extremities rubbed, inner hinges cracked, lacking fol. e1, title-leaf frayed and soiled, small wormholes through text block in first 3 quires catching a few letters, occasional offsetting from coloring, small adhesive spot on b8v-c1r obscuring 4 letters on b8v, some foxing, dampstaining at beginning and end, marginal soiling. Collation: a-h8 i6. 69 leaves (of 70, lacking e1). Types: 9:130 (title), 8:90R (headings of some woodcuts), 4:76G (text). 40-41 lines. 46 woodcuts (2 half-page, the remainder smaller) mainly of zodiacal figures and including 6 astronomical diagrams, opening 8-line woodcut initial, 7-line and smaller initials throughout, woodcuts and initials crudely colored in an early hand. FIRST EDITION.

The 15 cuts showing allegorical figures of the planets are reduced versions of seven woodcuts used by Ratdolt in Johannes de Thwrocz, Chronica Hungarorum (Augsburg: E. Ratdolt for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488, Goff T-361). HC 612*; Pellechet 415; Polain (B) 105; Schreiber 3075; Proctor 1880; BMC II, 382; Stillwell Science 8; GW 840; Goff A-359.

Provenance: A few early marginal notes, more numerous eighteenth-century marginalia (largely cropped), foliation in the same hand -- Leo Olschki, bookseller's ticket with shelfmark 13550 inside front wrapper (bound at end), same shelfmark on lower wrapper -- "M. A. Principis Burghesii", armorial bookplate inside same wrapper -- Edmund McClure, bookplate.