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PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro (1508-1578). Della sfera del mondo. -- delle stelle fisse libro uno. Venice: Nicolò de Bascarini, 1552.
4° (202 x 150mm). Woodcut printer's device on titles, 47 full-page woodcut star maps (numbered I-XLVIII, no number XXIV), diagrams, large historiated initials. (A few leaves with light waterstains, light occasional browning or spotting.) Modern old style vellum-backed calf (new endpapers). Provenance: occasional faint annotations (in margins).
Third edition of Piccolomini's De la sfera del mondo, which was originally published in 1540. The first part is a traditional Ptolemaic-Aristotelian geocentric cosmography, but the appendix, entitled De le stelle fisse, contains the first star atlas to be published. It also introduces the practice of identification of stars by letter, which would later be adopted and expanded by Bayer. Adams P-1108; Houzeau and Lancaster 2491; Riccardi I(ii) 269.
4° (202 x 150mm). Woodcut printer's device on titles, 47 full-page woodcut star maps (numbered I-XLVIII, no number XXIV), diagrams, large historiated initials. (A few leaves with light waterstains, light occasional browning or spotting.) Modern old style vellum-backed calf (new endpapers). Provenance: occasional faint annotations (in margins).
Third edition of Piccolomini's De la sfera del mondo, which was originally published in 1540. The first part is a traditional Ptolemaic-Aristotelian geocentric cosmography, but the appendix, entitled De le stelle fisse, contains the first star atlas to be published. It also introduces the practice of identification of stars by letter, which would later be adopted and expanded by Bayer. Adams P-1108; Houzeau and Lancaster 2491; Riccardi I(ii) 269.
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