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FINÉ, Oronce. De mundi sphaera, sive cosmographia. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1542.
2o (315 x 215 mm). Title within allegorical woodcut border by Finé including the figures of Geometry, Astronomy, Music and Arithmetic, full-page woodcut on *6v of Urania and the author, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. (A stab-hole penetrating most of the text block and occasionally touching letters, but mostly affecting only the blank fore-margins or side-notes, some minor occasional pale spotting.) Contemporary vellum (spine with a few defects). Provenance: some early marginalia and notes on final leaf verso; 1875 purchase inscription; Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale, part II, Sotheby's London, 11 November 1974, lot 377); acquired from John Fleming, 1976.
FIRST EDITION of the revised version of the "De cosmographia, sive mundi sphaera" which formed the third part of the Protomathesis. The work is in two parts, the first cosmographical, and the second trigonometrical. The first part "includes the description of the fixed celestial sphere used for reference, essential ideas concerning the astronomy of the primim mobile (right and oblique ascensions and the duration of diurnal arcs" (DSB). Finé's cosmography rivaled Sacrobosco and Apianus in both authority and popularity.
"Of the eighty-nine additional woodcuts, sixty-four are the original blocks designed by Finé for the "Cosmographia" section of the Protomathesis, the original version of this text. Sixteen of the Protomathesis blocks were dropped or replaced" (Mortimer).
Adams F-468; Mortimer French 226; Renouard Colines, pp. 358-359; Wellcome I, 2285.
2o (315 x 215 mm). Title within allegorical woodcut border by Finé including the figures of Geometry, Astronomy, Music and Arithmetic, full-page woodcut on *6v of Urania and the author, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. (A stab-hole penetrating most of the text block and occasionally touching letters, but mostly affecting only the blank fore-margins or side-notes, some minor occasional pale spotting.) Contemporary vellum (spine with a few defects). Provenance: some early marginalia and notes on final leaf verso; 1875 purchase inscription; Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale, part II, Sotheby's London, 11 November 1974, lot 377); acquired from John Fleming, 1976.
FIRST EDITION of the revised version of the "De cosmographia, sive mundi sphaera" which formed the third part of the Protomathesis. The work is in two parts, the first cosmographical, and the second trigonometrical. The first part "includes the description of the fixed celestial sphere used for reference, essential ideas concerning the astronomy of the primim mobile (right and oblique ascensions and the duration of diurnal arcs" (DSB). Finé's cosmography rivaled Sacrobosco and Apianus in both authority and popularity.
"Of the eighty-nine additional woodcuts, sixty-four are the original blocks designed by Finé for the "Cosmographia" section of the Protomathesis, the original version of this text. Sixteen of the Protomathesis blocks were dropped or replaced" (Mortimer).
Adams F-468; Mortimer French 226; Renouard Colines, pp. 358-359; Wellcome I, 2285.