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(1562). SACROBOSCO (Joannes de). SPHAERA EMENDATA. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1562. 102 leaves. - SACROBOSCO. LIBELLUS DE ANNI RATIONE. Paris, idem, no date. 50 leaves. - BEYER (Hartmann). QUAESTIONES NOVAE IN LIBELLUM DE SPHAERA. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1562. 70 leaves and 2 folding tables. Together bound in 1 volume in-8, wood ais covered with vellum, beveled and embossed boards decorated with figures and fleurons, ornate ribbed spine, clasps (period binding). Rare Latin edition of the famous astronomical treatise by the mathematician John de Holywood, better known by his Latin name Sacrobosco. The Sphera Emendata, prefaced by the humanist Elie Vinet, is illustrated with over 80 WOODEN FIGURES, including 3 WITH VOLVELLES. The second book, "Libellus de Anni Ratione", is prefaced and annotated by Philippe Melanchton (1497-1560), while the last, "Quaestiones novae", is by Hartmann Beyer (1516-1577), professor of mathematics and theology at Wittenberg. The 2 tables have been placed at the end of the volume. A very fine copy, complete with volvelles and beautifully preserved in a refined contemporary binding (USTC 203084, 2 ex. - 139959, 2 ex. - 153156, 11ex.).
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(1562). SACROBOSCO (Joannes de). SPHAERA EMENDATA. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1562. 102 leaves. - SACROBOSCO. LIBELLUS DE ANNI RATIONE. Paris, idem, no date. 50 leaves. - BEYER (Hartmann). QUAESTIONES NOVAE IN LIBELLUM DE SPHAERA. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1562. 70 leaves and 2 folding tables. Together bound in 1 volume in-8, wood ais covered with vellum, beveled and embossed boards decorated with figures and fleurons, ornate ribbed spine, clasps (period binding). Rare Latin edition of the famous astronomical treatise by the mathematician John de Holywood, better known by his Latin name Sacrobosco. The Sphera Emendata, prefaced by the humanist Elie Vinet, is illustrated with over 80 WOODEN FIGURES, including 3 WITH VOLVELLES. The second book, "Libellus de Anni Ratione", is prefaced and annotated by Philippe Melanchton (1497-1560), while the last, "Quaestiones novae", is by Hartmann Beyer (1516-1577), professor of mathematics and theology at Wittenberg. The 2 tables have been placed at the end of the volume. A very fine copy, complete with volvelles and beautifully preserved in a refined contemporary binding (USTC 203084, 2 ex. - 139959, 2 ex. - 153156, 11ex.).
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