PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro. La Sfera del Mondo, Venice: heirs of Giovanni Varisco, 1595, small 4° (195 x 145mm.), woodcut title device and diagrams (some worming of margins) [bound as issued with:] De le Stesse Fisse libro uno, Venice: heirs of Giovanni Varisco, [1595], small 4°, woodcut star maps (ink smudges to A8v), 2 works in one volume, contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title to spine. [Riccardi 1(2) 271 1.12] -- PAPPIANI, Alberto. Della Sfera Armillare e dell'uso di essa nella astronomia nautica e gnomonica, Florence: Andrea Bonducci, 1745, 4° (165 x 185mm.), title in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 9 folding plates, engraved title vignette, headpieces and initials (tear to inner margin of penultimate leaf), contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript. With one other work on astronomy. (3)

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PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro. La Sfera del Mondo, Venice: heirs of Giovanni Varisco, 1595, small 4° (195 x 145mm.), woodcut title device and diagrams (some worming of margins) [bound as issued with:] De le Stesse Fisse libro uno, Venice: heirs of Giovanni Varisco, [1595], small 4°, woodcut star maps (ink smudges to A8v), 2 works in one volume, contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title to spine. [Riccardi 1(2) 271 1.12] -- PAPPIANI, Alberto. Della Sfera Armillare e dell'uso di essa nella astronomia nautica e gnomonica, Florence: Andrea Bonducci, 1745, 4° (165 x 185mm.), title in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 9 folding plates, engraved title vignette, headpieces and initials (tear to inner margin of penultimate leaf), contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript. With one other work on astronomy. (3)

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