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1327 - DANTI, Ignatio. Primo Volume dell' vso et fabbrica dell' astrolabio, et del planisferio, 2nd expanded edition, Florence 1578. In-4°, flexible vellum binding of the period (creases and tears; three of the four fasteners missing), [viii] + 325 + [i, register], numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text.
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DANTI, Ignatio. Primo Volume dell' vso et fabbrica dell' astrolabio, et del planisferio, 2nd expanded edition, Florence 1578. In-4°, flexible vellum binding of the period (creases and tears; three of the four fasteners missing), [viii] + 325 + [i, register], numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Bound with SPINI, Gherado. Annotazioni intorno al trattato dell’astrolabio e del planisferio universale del R. P. Ignation Danti …, Florence, (Bartholomeo Sermartelli) 1570. In-4°, 40 pp. numbered 8–39, motto 'Festina lente' engraved on the title page. Provenance Diomedis Montisperelli (contemporary signature on the title page) Samuel Verplanck Hoffman The New York Historical Society, Christie’s London auction, November 12, 1975, lot 34. Far more comprehensive than the first edition of 1568, the work is supplemented by descriptions of Ptolemy’s four observational instruments: the torquete, the armillary sphere, Hipparchus’s diopter, the gnomon, and the anemoscope. Adams D124; H&L 3288; Riccardi i, 390, 1_{2}* (Danti); i, 471 (Spini) 'rare and valuable'. Provenance: library of Jean-Nérée RONFORT (1943–2012)
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