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1355 - KRABBE, Johannes. *Neues astrolabium sampt dessen nutz und Gebrauch, Nichtalleinden Astronomis und Medicis …*, Wolfenbüttel (Elias Holwein) 1525 [correctly 1625]. Small in-4°, modern cold-stamped gold-leaf vellum binding, pp. [xii] + 143 with woodcut illustrations, several full-page plates in the text. Title page burnished, text clean, a few pages with notches.
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KRABBE, Johannes. *Neues astrolabium sampt dessen nutz und Gebrauch, Nichtalleinden Astronomis und Medicis …*, Wolfenbüttel (Elias Holwein) 1525 [correctly 1625]. Small in-4°, modern cold-stamped gold-leaf vellum binding, pp. [xii] + 143 with woodcut illustrations, several full-page plates in the text. Title page burnished, text clean, a few pages with notches. A late copy (five editions appeared before 1610) but augmented by a portrait of Krabbe (1553–1616) and a poem in his honor; this treatise was written by a manufacturer (a rare occurrence), of whom at least seven instruments and the design for a paper-printed astrolabe have survived. H & L 3304 “very rare.” Provenance: library of Jean-Nérée RONFORT (1943–2012)
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