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LEONARDUS, Camillus, of Pesaro (fl.1480). Expositio canonum aequatorii coelestium motuum. Venice: Georgius de Arrivabenis, 21 July 1496.
4° (197 x 148mm). Collation: a-i4 K6. 41 (of 42) leaves (lacking final blank). 36 lines. Gothic type, one 4-line woodcut initial, 3-line initial spaces with guide letters, 2 full-page astronomical woodcuts and 5 smaller cuts. (Verso of final leaf soiled, repaired wormhole in upper blank margin of last three leaves.) Modern brown calf gilt, g.e.
RARE; only 15th-century edition. Little is known of the author of this astronomical treatise. He does give some information in the dedicatory epistle to Giovanni Sforza: he was born and lived in Pesaro and was a follower of Guilelmus Aegidius of Wisselkirke in Zeeland. The book is in three parts. The first two are purely astronomical and treat of the planets and fixed stars; the third is astrological dealing with horoscopes and bloodletting and the administering of medicine according to the position of the planets. The table of latitudes on e2. includes a passage which, though somewhat ambiguous, probably refers to the discoveries of Columbus, as yet still unconfirmed by Vespucci's work.
H 4283; Pellechet 3178; Goff L-139.
4° (197 x 148mm). Collation: a-i4 K6. 41 (of 42) leaves (lacking final blank). 36 lines. Gothic type, one 4-line woodcut initial, 3-line initial spaces with guide letters, 2 full-page astronomical woodcuts and 5 smaller cuts. (Verso of final leaf soiled, repaired wormhole in upper blank margin of last three leaves.) Modern brown calf gilt, g.e.
RARE; only 15th-century edition. Little is known of the author of this astronomical treatise. He does give some information in the dedicatory epistle to Giovanni Sforza: he was born and lived in Pesaro and was a follower of Guilelmus Aegidius of Wisselkirke in Zeeland. The book is in three parts. The first two are purely astronomical and treat of the planets and fixed stars; the third is astrological dealing with horoscopes and bloodletting and the administering of medicine according to the position of the planets. The table of latitudes on e2. includes a passage which, though somewhat ambiguous, probably refers to the discoveries of Columbus, as yet still unconfirmed by Vespucci's work.
H 4283; Pellechet 3178; Goff L-139.