Astronomia

Modern red morocco over marbled boards. 12 leaves, 38 lines.FIRST EDITION of this extremely rare treatise of Albertus Magnus, a medieval German philosopher and theologian. He quotes Aristotle, Ptolemy, Arab writers, and ohers. The author presents here the Ptolemaic system. This edition is the...

Contemporary vellum (large repair on rear cover, lacking ties and letteringpiece, front hinges starting to detach, rear hinges detached, lightly soiled). 20,246,(16),271,(23;1b;2;1b),29,(2),(1b). Title within woodcut architectural border, one folding woodcut illustration, 2 folding letterpress...

Contemporary calf, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Woodcut device on title, extraillustrated with 51 double-page engraved star maps. Text-only edition of Bayer’s Uranometria of 1603. From 1624, the descriptive text was published without the engravings. This copy though has been...

Modern vellum. 98 leaves, double column, 56 lines, woodcut text illustrations.FIRST EDITION of this exceptional dissertation that Albertus Magnus wrote on comets after the 1240 comet in Saxony, which he observed. Small wormholes in first (repaired) and final quires, some light spotting, small...

Later vellum binding (front flyleaf detached, covers bowed). Engraved title and 51 engraved plates, each unfolded. Sixth edition of the first complete star atlas, a fundamental work in that branch of astronomy the author called ‘uranometry’, the science of measuring the distances and...

Legatura coeva in cartonnage coevo con il dorso ricoperto in pergamena moderna; guardie mancanti. Bell'antiporta figurata incisa da Rocco Pozzi su ideazione di Stafano Pozzi, con ritratto del dedicatario, Giovanni V del  Portogallo, in ovale sorretto da figure mitologiche,  bianco il...