Regiomontanus (d.I. Johannes Müller von Königsberg).

[Calendarium latinum:] Avreus hic liber est: non est preciosor ulla Ge[m]ma kalendario: quod docet istud opus... Venice, Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Petrus Löslein and Erhard Ratdolt, 1476. 4°. Roman type; 28-30 lines. Printed in red and black. 28 unnum. (instead of 32 leaves; without the four leaves with the astronomical figures; without quire designation; original quires dissolved, the leaves mounted on new rebates). With a beautiful five-part woodcut title border, 13 initials printed in red and 12 floral initials in black as well as 60 woodcuts, some colored yellow, for the eclipses. Modern, light brown half pigskin binding (signed Hedberg, Stockholm). ISTC ir00093000. BMC V 243 (IB 20481). Goff R-93, Proctor 4365, Klebs 836.2, Schramm 6400, not in Schreiber. Not in Zinner. Second Latin edition of Regiomontanus' calendar, the first book printed by Ratdolt in Venice. The first book to have a title with a border on which the author, the place of printing, the printers and the date of printing are given. In the tables of conjunctions and oppositions and in the calendar, individual dates and feast days of saints are printed in red, also in the table of movable feast days. The woodcuts on leaves 14-18, some of which are colored yellow, show the eclipses up to the year 1530 - Handwritten additions for the new and full moon at the head of the tables of conjunctions and oppositions, and handwritten astronomical entries by the same hand on leaf 19. Our copy lacks the four leaves with the full-page woodcuts of the astronomical instruments. E.P. Goldschmidt offered a complete copy in his catalog 6 (January 1925, no. 48) and praised it as "one of the finest, rarest and most interesting of early printed books". To emphasize the rarity of the work, Goldschmidt refers to the copy in C.W. Dyson Perrin's collection, which lacks the same four leaves as our copy. A good copy with wide margins. Detached from an anthology, with old handwritten foliation at the head. Only insignificantly stained. - ╔The first printed book with a title page.╗