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AGRIPPA, Camillo (1510s-1595). Modo da comporre il moto nella sfera. Rome: Antonio Blado, 1575.
4° (221 x 155mm). Woodcut initial, large engraved folding plate. (Folding plate with few small holes and tiny stains, reinforced at one fold, light spotting.) Later vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: Libreria Mediolanum (bookseller’s ticket).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this astronomical treatise. Camillo Agrippa, a renowned engineer, mathematician and fencing theorist, constructed one of the earliest planetariums. In the present work he explains certain irregularities in the yearly movements of the earth with the help of the very large folding plate. NO COPIES RECORDED IN ABPC/RBH SINCE THE HONEYMAN COPY SOLD IN 1978. Cf. Fumagalli, Antonio Blado, p. 104 (described in a note on the endpaper as one of the rarest and most notable Blado editions); Riccardi I, 10 (‘rarissimo… ignoto ai precitati biografi dell’autore’).
4° (221 x 155mm). Woodcut initial, large engraved folding plate. (Folding plate with few small holes and tiny stains, reinforced at one fold, light spotting.) Later vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: Libreria Mediolanum (bookseller’s ticket).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this astronomical treatise. Camillo Agrippa, a renowned engineer, mathematician and fencing theorist, constructed one of the earliest planetariums. In the present work he explains certain irregularities in the yearly movements of the earth with the help of the very large folding plate. NO COPIES RECORDED IN ABPC/RBH SINCE THE HONEYMAN COPY SOLD IN 1978. Cf. Fumagalli, Antonio Blado, p. 104 (described in a note on the endpaper as one of the rarest and most notable Blado editions); Riccardi I, 10 (‘rarissimo… ignoto ai precitati biografi dell’autore’).
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