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Sacrobosco, Giovanni de
Sphera mundi noviter recognita cum commentarijs & authoribus in hoc volumine contentis, 1518
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Venice, Lucantonio Giunti, 1518. In 2°. Large astrolabe on paper 5v, text illustrated by many figures and astronomical diagrams in woodcut, engraved drop caps, text in Gothic type on two columns, notes on margin of an old hand, mutilated title page, some halos, numbering errors on the leaves, errors in the arrangement of the last leaves during the binding phase, binding from the 16th century. XIX in half parchment with corners, titles printed on red tassels on the spine. Mutilated ownership note on title page.
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Beautiful illustrated edition of the Sfera del Sacrobosco, which also includes numerous treatises, including the Theoricae novae planetarum by Georgius Purbachius, and Commentarii, such as those by Campano and Cecco d'Ascoli, providing a fundamental sylloge of pre-Copernican astronomy.
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