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SACROBOSCO, Johannes de. Sphaera mundi. - Georgius PURBACHIUS. Theoricae novae planetarum. - REGIOMONTANUS. Disputationes contra Cremonensia. Venice: Johannes Lucilius Santritter and Hieronymous de Sanctis, 31 March 1488.
4° (207 x 150mm). Collation: A10 B8 BB12 C8 C8+1 E F8 G6. 69 leaves. 35 lines. Type: 5:82R (text); 10:65G and 24bis:55G (legends on diagrams). First paragraph (seven lines) on A2. printed in red. 12- and 6-line woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on recto of final leaf, two full-page woodcuts (Astronomia, Urania and Ptolemy on A1. and an armillary sphere on A4.), numerous woodcut diagrams, eight printed in colours (seven in black and one other colour, one in black and two other colours). (Light worming to inner blank margins). Modern blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, g.e., by Leighton of London (joints and extremities a trifle scuffed). Provenance: extensive early marginal notes in black, and occasionally red ink; Alberto Parreño (armorial bookplate).
Inserted is a copy of the full-page woodcut of Astronomia from a 1491 edition of the same work. HC *14112; BMC V, 462 (IA.2331); Goff J-407; Sander 6663.
4° (207 x 150mm). Collation: A10 B8 BB12 C8 C8+1 E F8 G6. 69 leaves. 35 lines. Type: 5:82R (text); 10:65G and 24bis:55G (legends on diagrams). First paragraph (seven lines) on A2. printed in red. 12- and 6-line woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on recto of final leaf, two full-page woodcuts (Astronomia, Urania and Ptolemy on A1. and an armillary sphere on A4.), numerous woodcut diagrams, eight printed in colours (seven in black and one other colour, one in black and two other colours). (Light worming to inner blank margins). Modern blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, g.e., by Leighton of London (joints and extremities a trifle scuffed). Provenance: extensive early marginal notes in black, and occasionally red ink; Alberto Parreño (armorial bookplate).
Inserted is a copy of the full-page woodcut of Astronomia from a 1491 edition of the same work. HC *14112; BMC V, 462 (IA.2331); Goff J-407; Sander 6663.