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Books, Autographs & Prints / Part I

Tuesday 30 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Clavius, Cristophorus

In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius, 1607

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Lyon, Hugues de La Porte for Jean de Gabiano, 1607. In 4th. Frontispiece printed in red and black with woodcut armillary sphere, diagrams engraved in wood in the text, blooms and brownings, woodworm holes in the white margin of some papers with damage to the text on the 2P-R booklet, coeval rigid parchment binding, smooth spine with manuscript author and title, some stains.
Important commentary on the Sacrobosco Sphere, by the Jesuit astronomer Clavius from Bamberg (1537-1612), a staunch supporter of the Copernican astronomical theory.