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HYGINUS, Caius Julius. Libri quattuor non solum poeticas & hystoricas verum et astronomicas per multas veritates acriori collectas ... enodantes. Edited by J.L. Vives. Paris: Pasquier Lambert, [not before 31 August 1517].
4° (191 x 130mm.). Title in red and black with woodcut printer's device, 50 woodcut illustrations (1 full-page). (Some old dampstaining, margins of 3 leaves repaired.) Contemporary French blind-stamped sheep over pasteboard (rebacked and cornered). Provenance: Dijon, Carmelites (two early inscriptions); Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate and bibliographic notes by the co-editor of STC, and author of the bibliography of Erhard Ratdolt).
41 of the woodcuts representing the constellations are probably reduced copies taken from the Venice 1482 Ratdolt edition of the Poeticon Astronomicon. 7 of the planets from the Planetenbuch, the full-page woodcut on the final leaf of the Sphaera Mundi from Ratdolt's Sacrobosco of 1485 and the verso of the title has a woodcut of the Microcosm (i.e. the nude figure of a man stretched across a circle marked with four cardinal points). Fairfax Murray French 285.
4° (191 x 130mm.). Title in red and black with woodcut printer's device, 50 woodcut illustrations (1 full-page). (Some old dampstaining, margins of 3 leaves repaired.) Contemporary French blind-stamped sheep over pasteboard (rebacked and cornered). Provenance: Dijon, Carmelites (two early inscriptions); Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate and bibliographic notes by the co-editor of STC, and author of the bibliography of Erhard Ratdolt).
41 of the woodcuts representing the constellations are probably reduced copies taken from the Venice 1482 Ratdolt edition of the Poeticon Astronomicon. 7 of the planets from the Planetenbuch, the full-page woodcut on the final leaf of the Sphaera Mundi from Ratdolt's Sacrobosco of 1485 and the verso of the title has a woodcut of the Microcosm (i.e. the nude figure of a man stretched across a circle marked with four cardinal points). Fairfax Murray French 285.