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PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro. Della Sfera del Mondo. -- Del le Stelle fisse libro uno. Venice: Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1561.
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PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro. Della Sfera del Mondo. -- Del le Stelle fisse libro uno. Venice: Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1561.
4° (206 x 151 mm). Woodcut printer's device on titles, 47 full-page woodcut star maps (misnumbered 48, skipping no. 24, as usual), woodcut illustrations in text and tables. (Some marginal dampstaining and light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum (remnants of reddish staining to sides, rubbed and some wear). Provenance: "Vidinus Physicus" (inscription dated “1679” on front free endpaper); Bronzo Philippo Franz (owner’s name on rear free endpaper).
Sixth edition of his highly popular cosmography and star atlas. See previous lot. Riccardi I:270.
4° (206 x 151 mm). Woodcut printer's device on titles, 47 full-page woodcut star maps (misnumbered 48, skipping no. 24, as usual), woodcut illustrations in text and tables. (Some marginal dampstaining and light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum (remnants of reddish staining to sides, rubbed and some wear). Provenance: "Vidinus Physicus" (inscription dated “1679” on front free endpaper); Bronzo Philippo Franz (owner’s name on rear free endpaper).
Sixth edition of his highly popular cosmography and star atlas. See previous lot. Riccardi I:270.