PADOVANI, Giovanni (b. 1512?). Opera nuova … tradotta di latino in volgare, la qual dichiara l'uso del maraviglioso istromento astronomico, da lui intitulato Horoscopio. Verona: Paulo Ravegnano, 1560.
PADOVANI, Giovanni (b. 1512?). Opera nuova … tradotta di latino in volgare, la qual dichiara l'uso del maraviglioso istromento astronomico, da lui intitulato Horoscopio. Verona: Paulo Ravegnano, 1560. 2 parts, 4° (220 x 164mm). Title device, several woodcut initials. With final blank. (Title with a few small marginal tears, some light marginal spotting and soiling.) 20th-century half vellum and blue patterned boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Whereas the two Latin editions of 1560 and 1563 both appeared in Venice in 12mo, the vernacular editions of 1560 and 1592 were both published in Padovani’s city of Verona in grander quarto. The ‘Horoscopio’ was a form of clock which he devised not to keep time but, as shown in the first part, to calculate what the hour might be at different times of day or night. The second part reveals some of the other ‘secrets’ of his ‘marvellous instrument,’ such as how to find the height of the sun’s meridian or the elevation of the pole. SCARCE. Only five copies located in EDIT16. No sale record in ABPC/RBH. BL/STC Italian Books p.483; Honeyman 2382; Houzeau and Lancaster 4881 & 11368; Riccardi I(ii) 231.
PADOVANI, Giovanni (b. 1512?). Opera nuova … tradotta di latino in volgare, la qual dichiara l'uso del maraviglioso istromento astronomico, da lui intitulato Horoscopio. Verona: Paulo Ravegnano, 1560.
PADOVANI, Giovanni (b. 1512?). Opera nuova … tradotta di latino in volgare, la qual dichiara l'uso del maraviglioso istromento astronomico, da lui intitulato Horoscopio. Verona: Paulo Ravegnano, 1560. 2 parts, 4° (220 x 164mm). Title device, several woodcut initials. With final blank. (Title with a few small marginal tears, some light marginal spotting and soiling.) 20th-century half vellum and blue patterned boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Whereas the two Latin editions of 1560 and 1563 both appeared in Venice in 12mo, the vernacular editions of 1560 and 1592 were both published in Padovani’s city of Verona in grander quarto. The ‘Horoscopio’ was a form of clock which he devised not to keep time but, as shown in the first part, to calculate what the hour might be at different times of day or night. The second part reveals some of the other ‘secrets’ of his ‘marvellous instrument,’ such as how to find the height of the sun’s meridian or the elevation of the pole. SCARCE. Only five copies located in EDIT16. No sale record in ABPC/RBH. BL/STC Italian Books p.483; Honeyman 2382; Houzeau and Lancaster 4881 & 11368; Riccardi I(ii) 231.
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