Piccolomini, AlessandroDe la sfera del mondo. Libri quattro in lingua toscana … De le stelle fisse. Libro vno con le sue figure, e con le sue tauole. Venice: (Giovanni Antonio and Domenico Volpini for Andrea Arrivabene), 1540
2 parts in one volume, 4to (217 x 155 mm). collation: [Maltese cross]4 [fleur de lys]4 A–N4 A–Z4 Aa–Ii4 Kk2: 194 irregularly foliated leaves. General title-page and section-title for De le stelle fisse with woodcut printer's device, both parts with woodcut diagrams in text and woodcut historiated initials, De le stelle fisse with 47 full-page star-charts, tables; some scattered soling, ink erosion at repair at lower margin of title-page from early inscription, final leaf rebacked. Near-contemporary vellum; recased.
REFERENCES:Edit16 29469; Houzeau & Lancaster 2491
PROVENANCE:Henry Ludlow, 2nd Baron Ludlow (armorial bookplate)
[With:] Alessandro PiccolominiIn Mechanicas quaestiones Aristotelis, paraphrasis paulo quidem plenior. (Rome: Antonio Blado), 1547
4to (196 x 142 mm). collation: A–Z4 AA–EE4 FF2: 114 foliated leaves. Woodcut printer's devices on title-page and final page, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut historiated and other decorative initials. Eighteenth-century vellum, red edges; recased.
REFERENCES:Edit16 24610
[And with:] Alessandro PiccolominiLa prima parte delle Theoriche ouero Speculationi de i pianeti. Venice: Giovanni Varisco, 1568
4to (200 x 149 mm). collation: a–b4 C2 A–Q4: 74 foliated leaves (Q4 blank). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut historiated initials; title-page a bit soiled. Contemporary paper boards, plain endpapers and edges. Half tan morocco folding-case.
Together, 3 works by Piccolomini, including the first edition of "the first printed star atlas, containing maps of the stars as opposed to simple pictures of constellations, and introducing the practice of identifying stars by letter, a method later adopted and expanded by Bayer" (Norman 1696, for fifth edition of 1559).
Piccolomini, AlessandroDe la sfera del mondo. Libri quattro in lingua toscana … De le stelle fisse. Libro vno con le sue figure, e con le sue tauole. Venice: (Giovanni Antonio and Domenico Volpini for Andrea Arrivabene), 1540
2 parts in one volume, 4to (217 x 155 mm). collation: [Maltese cross]4 [fleur de lys]4 A–N4 A–Z4 Aa–Ii4 Kk2: 194 irregularly foliated leaves. General title-page and section-title for De le stelle fisse with woodcut printer's device, both parts with woodcut diagrams in text and woodcut historiated initials, De le stelle fisse with 47 full-page star-charts, tables; some scattered soling, ink erosion at repair at lower margin of title-page from early inscription, final leaf rebacked. Near-contemporary vellum; recased.
REFERENCES:Edit16 29469; Houzeau & Lancaster 2491
PROVENANCE:Henry Ludlow, 2nd Baron Ludlow (armorial bookplate)
[With:] Alessandro PiccolominiIn Mechanicas quaestiones Aristotelis, paraphrasis paulo quidem plenior. (Rome: Antonio Blado), 1547
4to (196 x 142 mm). collation: A–Z4 AA–EE4 FF2: 114 foliated leaves. Woodcut printer's devices on title-page and final page, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut historiated and other decorative initials. Eighteenth-century vellum, red edges; recased.
REFERENCES:Edit16 24610
[And with:] Alessandro PiccolominiLa prima parte delle Theoriche ouero Speculationi de i pianeti. Venice: Giovanni Varisco, 1568
4to (200 x 149 mm). collation: a–b4 C2 A–Q4: 74 foliated leaves (Q4 blank). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut historiated initials; title-page a bit soiled. Contemporary paper boards, plain endpapers and edges. Half tan morocco folding-case.
Together, 3 works by Piccolomini, including the first edition of "the first printed star atlas, containing maps of the stars as opposed to simple pictures of constellations, and introducing the practice of identifying stars by letter, a method later adopted and expanded by Bayer" (Norman 1696, for fifth edition of 1559).
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