Proclus (Diadochus): Procli de Sphaera Liber. Cleomedis De Mundo libri duo. Arati Solensis Phaenomena. Dionysii Afri Descriptio orbis habitabilis, [ed. M. Hopper], Basle, [colophon: per Henricum Petri], 1547, 3 parts in one, 8vo, parallel text in Greek and Latin (title fingersoiled and with old ownership inscriptions at foot, some marginal dampstains, blank section torn away from several margins, some scoring of text), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (soiled) [Zinner, Astronomischen Literatur, 1916; Adams P2132] -- Bernard (Edward): De Mensuris et Ponderibus Antiquis Libri Tres, Oxford, e Teatro Seldonio, 1688, 8vo, 4 folding engraved plates and tables, vellum (front inner hinge split). [Wing B1987; Brunet I, 798] (2)

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Proclus (Diadochus): Procli de Sphaera Liber. Cleomedis De Mundo libri duo. Arati Solensis Phaenomena. Dionysii Afri Descriptio orbis habitabilis, [ed. M. Hopper], Basle, [colophon: per Henricum Petri], 1547, 3 parts in one, 8vo, parallel text in Greek and Latin (title fingersoiled and with old ownership inscriptions at foot, some marginal dampstains, blank section torn away from several margins, some scoring of text), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (soiled) [Zinner, Astronomischen Literatur, 1916; Adams P2132] -- Bernard (Edward): De Mensuris et Ponderibus Antiquis Libri Tres, Oxford, e Teatro Seldonio, 1688, 8vo, 4 folding engraved plates and tables, vellum (front inner hinge split). [Wing B1987; Brunet I, 798] (2)

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The first book is an attractive edition of Dionysisus's classical work on cosmology. Edward Bernard (1638-96) classical scholar, astronomer, mathematician, and orientalist was also an eminent bibliographer and book collector. His book on ancient weights and measures is one of his principal works.

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