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EGNATIO DANTI (1536-1586) AND PROCLUS (c.412-485)
La sfera di Proclo Liceo tradotta da maestro Egnatio Danti ... con le annotazioni, & con l'uso della sfera del medesimo. Florence: Giunti, 1573. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (206 x 142mm). Woodcut Medici arms on first title, woodcut vignette of a sphere on second title, 15 woodcut diagrams, historiated initials. (Variable spotting, light marginal dampstaining in latter quires.) 20th-century half vellum, gilt spine with gilt leather lettering-piece (lightly rubbed). Provenance: early inscription on title.
FIRST EDITION OF DANTI'S TRANSLATION of Proclus' popular treatise, published together with the FIRST EDITION of Danti's Trattato dell'uso della sfera. Proclus' 'extraordinarily acute and orderly mind' (DSB) was highly esteemed in Renaissance Italy, and Danti enriched the concise work with his detailed annotations. Danti's own treatise was based on his Trattato ... dell'astrolabio (see the previous lot) and gave many recommendations for the fabrication and use of the armillary sphere; it was published the year before he observed the vernal equinox in Santa Maria Novella using the equinoctal armillary that he constructed on the church façade. The title shows an interesting 'insolito stemma mediceo con mappamondo' (Camerini), with the word 'Cosmos' printed thrice in Greek, an allusion to the first name of Danti's patron and Florence's ruler Cosimo de' Medici. Adams P-2137; Brunet IV, 896; Camerini 22; Houzeau & Lancaster I, 913; Riccardi I, 391.3 ('Raro').
La sfera di Proclo Liceo tradotta da maestro Egnatio Danti ... con le annotazioni, & con l'uso della sfera del medesimo. Florence: Giunti, 1573. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (206 x 142mm). Woodcut Medici arms on first title, woodcut vignette of a sphere on second title, 15 woodcut diagrams, historiated initials. (Variable spotting, light marginal dampstaining in latter quires.) 20th-century half vellum, gilt spine with gilt leather lettering-piece (lightly rubbed). Provenance: early inscription on title.
FIRST EDITION OF DANTI'S TRANSLATION of Proclus' popular treatise, published together with the FIRST EDITION of Danti's Trattato dell'uso della sfera. Proclus' 'extraordinarily acute and orderly mind' (DSB) was highly esteemed in Renaissance Italy, and Danti enriched the concise work with his detailed annotations. Danti's own treatise was based on his Trattato ... dell'astrolabio (see the previous lot) and gave many recommendations for the fabrication and use of the armillary sphere; it was published the year before he observed the vernal equinox in Santa Maria Novella using the equinoctal armillary that he constructed on the church façade. The title shows an interesting 'insolito stemma mediceo con mappamondo' (Camerini), with the word 'Cosmos' printed thrice in Greek, an allusion to the first name of Danti's patron and Florence's ruler Cosimo de' Medici. Adams P-2137; Brunet IV, 896; Camerini 22; Houzeau & Lancaster I, 913; Riccardi I, 391.3 ('Raro').
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