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SACROBOSCO, Joannes de (c.1190-c.1250). Sphaera mundi. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 4 October 1490.
4° (205 x 149mm). 48 leaves, 41 lines, types: 105 R.; 80 R. Full-page woodcut of Astronomia, Urania and Ptolemy on verso of title, woodcut of an armillary sphere on a4v, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, including 7 printed in up to four colours (black, red, brown and yellow), publisher’s device in red at end. (Light, mainly marginal thumb-soiling.) Modern green morocco by Zaehnsdorf (new endpapers), cloth and paper slipcase. Provenance: old marginalia (cropped) – ‘U P’ (bookplate on endpaper).
Fifth collected edition of most influential pre-Copernican work on astronomy published in Europe. The work also contains Regiomontanus’ attack on the planetary theory of Gerard of Cremona. ‘The woodcut and the diagrams, some of which are coloured, appear to be from the same blocks employed by De Sanctis in his 1488 edition’ (BMC). HC 14113; BMC V 438; Klebs 874.14; Sander 6664; Goff J-409.
4° (205 x 149mm). 48 leaves, 41 lines, types: 105 R.; 80 R. Full-page woodcut of Astronomia, Urania and Ptolemy on verso of title, woodcut of an armillary sphere on a4v, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, including 7 printed in up to four colours (black, red, brown and yellow), publisher’s device in red at end. (Light, mainly marginal thumb-soiling.) Modern green morocco by Zaehnsdorf (new endpapers), cloth and paper slipcase. Provenance: old marginalia (cropped) – ‘U P’ (bookplate on endpaper).
Fifth collected edition of most influential pre-Copernican work on astronomy published in Europe. The work also contains Regiomontanus’ attack on the planetary theory of Gerard of Cremona. ‘The woodcut and the diagrams, some of which are coloured, appear to be from the same blocks employed by De Sanctis in his 1488 edition’ (BMC). HC 14113; BMC V 438; Klebs 874.14; Sander 6664; Goff J-409.
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