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Achillini, Alessandro. De orbibus libri quattuor. Bologna, Bene- dictus Hectoris, 1498. In-folio de 51, (1) ff., [a-h6, i4]. Veau brun, dos à nerfs, encadrements sur les plats. (Reliure récente dans le genre de l'époque.) € 28.000,- First edition of this very are astronomical incunabula. An annotated copy by a contempo- rary scholar with about thirty notes in the margins. Alessandro Achillini had most probably Nicolas Copernicus amongst his pupils. "Coperni- cus would have been aware of the presence at Bologna of one of the most celebrated phi- losophers in Italy, 'the second Aristotle', Alessandro Achillini who published a scathing Averroist attack on Ptolemy while Copernics was resident at the university. In his 'De orbi- bus", published at Bologna in 1498, Achillini presents Averroes's three main routes to negative conclusions about Ptolemy. (..) At least one recent writer [Mario di Bono] has suggested that Copernicus may have been obliged to attend Achillini's lectures. We may adduce further reasons from the changes in Copernicus' s course of study. (...) The challenge of reconciling astronomy and natural philosophy was the central challenge of the Averroists to the Ptolemaic tradition. This challenge was longstanding, but it was raised particularly acutely and by highly visible and prestigious figures in Italy during Copernicus' s education. Copernicus 's subsequent work should therefore be seen interalia as an attempt to meet the Averroist challenge to create a realist astronomy." P. Barker, Copernicus and the Critics of Ptolemy, Journal for the History of Astronomy. Sans frais d'expédition. Bestellung / Order: Hugues de Latude Livres anciens +33 609 571707 ou hdelatude@gmail.com
Atlas Celestial – Flamsteed, John. Atlas Coelestis. London, C. Nourse, 1781, Folio (ca 560 x 400 mm), pp [iv] 9 [1], with engraved portrait, vignette on title, headpiece, initial, and tailpiece, and 25 double-page star maps (on 26 sheets) and 2 double-page planispheres; a fine copy, uncut and unpressed, in contemporary boards, paper spine perished but original manuscript label remaining. £ 25,000 Third issue (first 1729), with the title reprinted, original list of subscribers discarded, otherwise comprising the original sheets of text; the plates were reprinted with plate numbers added. This is the most celebrated, important, and influential star atlas of the eighteenth century, superior to all its predecessors. This is the first star atlas based upon telescopic determinations of star positions and magnitudes. ‘Appointed in 1675 to the newly created post of Astronomer Royal, Flamsteed took up residence at Greenwich and there compiled the first telescopic catalog of the positions and magnitudes of the northern stars. The resultant “Stellarum Inerrantium Catalogus Britannicus”, still unfinished at his death, along with his other observations, was edited and published in 1725... in the Historia Coelestis Britannicae. Accompanying the catalog Flamsteed prepared a set of celestial maps that, in his own words, were to be “the glory of the work, and, next the catalogue, the usefullest part of it”. These also were published posthumously by his loyal friends’ (Warner, The sky explored). As early as 1692 Flamsteed had developed his own system of projection, known as the Sanson-Flamsteed sinusoidal projection, and had plotted the stars of ten constellations. The charts were prepared under his direction by Thomas Weston (who appears in the list of subscribers). Flamsteed argued with Newton over the order of publication of his star catalogue, observations, and the star maps. ‘Flamsteed, a great observer who understood the usefulness of the maps, “chiefly urged that the maps of the constellations should be first of all set upon: that, being carried on apart, they might be finished by the time the observations were printed off”. Newton, however, primarily interested in star positions for calculations, omitted all mention of the charts in his publication proposals and reports. In 1705 Flamsteed was writing that “Sir I. Newton would have the great catalog printed without the maps. I cannot consent to so sneaking a proposition”. Newton’s will prevailed. The Historia Coelestis of 1712 contained neither the observations nor the charts, but only the star catalogue, as amended by Halley. Although Flamsteed was able to destroy almost all copies of the spurious volume in 1714, a few copies remained at large’ (Ibid). In 1715 Flamsteed began preparing the maps for publication. Abraham Sharp drew the coordinates and positioned the stars. Sir James Thornhill and other artists drew the figures, based upon Weston’s work, and various engravers transferred them to copper. Flamsteed himself died in 1719, and it took another ten years for the work to be published. About 110 copies were subscribed for, including one by Isaac Newton. Thornhill’s elegant Rococo figures are described by Warner as constituting the last important celestial atlas style. The fine portrait is engraved by Vertue after Gibson. The title vignette and headpiece are by L.B. Catenaro, engraved by L. du Guernier. A few of the plates are signed by the engraver J. Mynde. Evidently undistributed stock remained; the work was reissued in 1753, and again, as here, in 1781. The original list of subscribers was discarded, but the dedication to the by-that- time deceased George II was retained. Plate numbers were added to the plates. Shirley C.FLAM-1a; Warner pp 80-82. We will be happy to send you further illustrations on request. The shipping is included worldwide. Bestellung / Order: Bruce Marshall +44 1242 672997 or info@marshallrarebooks.com
Atlas – Habrecht, Isaac II. Planiglobium coeleste, et terrestre, sive, globus coelestis, atque terrestris nova forma ac norma in planum pro jectus, omnes globorum circulos, gradus, partes, stellas, sidera, loca, in planis tabulis aeri incisis artificiose exhibens... Strasbourg, Mark von Heyden, 1628. [with:] Planiglobium terrestre. Strasbourg, Mark von Heyden, 1629. 2 parts in one vol, 4to (195 x 150 mm), pp [x] 102; [103-] 206, with engraved title to second part and woodcut diagrams in text, as usual without the two folding planispheres but present in the atlas vol below; some browning, otherwise an attractive copy bound in a contemporary manuscript leaf with decorated and coloured initials. [WITH:] Habrecht, Isaac II. and Johann Christoph Sturm. Planiglobium coeleste, et terrestre…. Nuremberg, Fürst, 1666. Folio (415 x 305 mm), with 14 engraved plates, bound in a uniform manuscript leaf. £ 12,000 First edition of Habrecht’s treatise on the construction of celestial and terrestrial globes and planispheres, accompanied by his pupil Sturm’s atlas intended to illustrate same. Isaac Habrecht II (1589-1633) was doctor of medicine and professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Strasbourg. He was one of a famous family, Swiss in origin, of clock and astronomical instrument makers in Strasbourg; his father, Isaac I, constructed the famous Strasbourg cathedral astronomical clock designed by Conrad Dasypodius and completed in 1574. Isaac II designed a famous celestial globe in 1625, which so impressed Jacob Bartsch, Kepler’s son-in-law and coiner of the term ‘planisphere’, that he modelled his own work upon it. This work was accompanied by two planispheres that are rarely present. Of the several copies in Continental libraries, all but one lack the plates. They are, however, present in the Sturm atlas; one is in fact dated 1628. J. C. Sturm (1635-1703) was Habrecht’s student. He organized the first scientific academy in Germany, the ‘Collegium Curiosum sive Experimentale’ at Altdorf in 1672, and introduced the first course in experimental physics in a German university. In 1662, he undertook the task of augmenting Habrecht’s original text and adding a number of folding plates. The plates include the two celestial planispheres from the original work, being polar stereographic celestial charts of the northern and southern constellations, printed from the same plates, two handsome polar projections of the world, and ten folded engravings showing the various parts of his ‘planiglobiums’. The plates, superbly executed by Jacob von der Heyden, were probably intended to be mounted and assembled to form several instruments, each with a revolving plate measuring 27 cm in diameter and a movable pointer. Each was to be supported on an approximately 12 cm base. The work is one of the most beautiful instrument books published in the seventeenth century and certainly one of the rarest, particularly with the full complement of plates. Regarding the two planispheres, Warner writes: ‘Habrecht derived the bulk of the information for this globe from Plancius. The origin of Rhombus – a constellation near the south pole that as reticulum survives today – is unclear. It may perhaps derive from the quadrilateral arrangement of stars seen by Vespucci around the Antarctic pole. In any case, Rhombus as such seems to have made its first appearance on Habrecht’s globe’ (The sky explored p 104). We will be happy to send you further illustrations on request. The shipping is included worldwide. Bestellung / Order: Bruce Marshall +44 1242 672997 or info@marshallrarebooks.com
Atlas – Piccolomini, Allesandro (1508-1579). La Sfera del Mondo … Di nuouo da lui ripolita, accresciuta, & fino à Sei Libri, di Quattro che erano ampliata, & quasi per ogniparte rinouata, & riformata. Venice: Giovanni Varisco, 1566. 4to, ([2], [12], 252, 48, [6], [2] pages, 93 [i.e. 69, illustrated with text woodcuts and the forty-seven woodcut full page star charts, small owners stamp to title, bound in contempo- rary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine and lower book block, in an excellent state of preservation. £ 3,000 This is the first printed star atlas. This early edition marks an important development in the form in which celestial knowledge was conveyed. The work introduced the system of stel- lar nomenclature, which with the modification subsequently made by Bayer, remains in use today. Stars are identified by lower case letters for a given constellation, with tables con- veniently listing magnitudes from first to fourth. The work proved wildly popular, with twelve editions in Italian and Latin within the 16th century. The De le Stelle Fisse is the companion volume to La Sfera del Mondo containing 47 maps of the different star patterns. Piccolomini used Ptolemy's system of star magnitudes, although he reduced it to four rather than five, and assigned different symbols to each one. The charts show only the shape of the constellations, rather than overlaying them with a pictorial map. The constellations are often not oriented to the north, but shown in their most recognisable position. We will be happy to send you further illustrations on request. The shipping is included worldwide. Bestellung / Order: Bruce Marshall +44 1242 672997 or info@marshallrarebooks.com
Atlas – Schoner, Johannes. Opera Mathematica ...in unum volumen congesta. Nuremberg: Johann Montanus & Ulrich Neuber, 1551. Folio (320 x 200mm) , 3 Parts in one volume, Early Citron Morocco Gilt, Gilt Crest of the Duke of Devonshire on Upper and Lower Covers, title printed in red and black, woodcut ornament on title-page, portrait of the author, preface by Philipp Melanchthon, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout concerning geographical, navigational and astronomical subjects, astronomical instruments and Schoner’s celebrated celestial and terrestrial globes, with 11 woodcut volvelles and 10 leaves with 34 printed discs for use on the volvelles. A Splendid complete copy of this extremely scarce work. £ 85,000 The First Edition of Shoner’s most important work, his collected Astronomical works pub- lished after his death in 1547. This includes the Aequatorium Astronomicum of 1521 the earliest works to contain moveable discs. This original edition, of which there is only one surviving copy, published on his own press at Bamberg, was the inspiration for Peter Apian’s extraordinary Astronomicom Caesareum of 1540. ‘Shoner assembled a printing shop in his house in Bamberg. He himself set the type, carved the woodblocks for the illustrations, and bound the finished product. He also made his own globes and astronomical instruments.’ DSB Johann Shoner, astrologer, astronomer, geographer, physician and author of forty-six books on these subjects was born in Carlstadt, Franconia in 1477 and received an education at Er- furt. He later taught at the Melanchthon Gymnasium in Nuremberg where he constructed a celestial globe for the Duke of Saxony, Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503- 1554). This globe was constructed with the help of Georg Spalatin and represents a revision and correction of the known earlier globes. His terrestrial globe of 1515, after Martin Wald- seemuller was the first printed globe to name the recently discovered continent of America, and his globe of 1524 was the first to describe Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation. Schoner’s celestial globe of 1533 is the oldest surviving printed celestial globe and is on display at the Science Museum in London. He is considered the most influential early globe maker, establishing Nuremberg as the European centre of the craft,and creating the idea of pairing celestial and terrestrial globes. The Opera Mathematica opens with two extensive treatises , ‘Isagodes Astralogiae Iudici- ariae’ and the ‘Tabulae Astronomicae’. The four following treatises concern the composition and use of celestial and terrestial globes. Schoner’s star catalogue, in the section ‘Coelestis Globi Compositio’ is an adaptioon of the star list published in 1543 by Nicolaus Copernicus in his ‘De Revolutionibus’. The section ‘De Usu Globis Terrestris’ contains a splendid en- graving of the author’s globe of 1520. The text refers to the voyages of Vespucci and mentions that the upper indies had been named ‘Americus’ after him. The voyages of Columbus, Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan are dis- cussed and Schoner also mentions Cuba, Florida, Mexico, Darien, Jamaica and North America, referred to as Parias. Three chapters of this work are given entirely to discoveries in the Western Hemisphere, among them ‘ Brasiliae novae terrae annotation.’ The Opera Mathematica is Schoner’s ‘magnum opus’ encapsulating all his theories and most important works. Perhaps the most influential of the Renaissance scholars, he is responsible for sending the Wittenberg professor, Rheticus to visit Copernicus and was instrumental in the publishing of ‘De Revolutionibus’. The first printed celestial globe was made in Schoner’s workshop in 1515 and he is remembered as one of the most important sixteenth century astronomers and globe makers. A crater on Mars is named in his honour. This is a particularly splendid copy of the ‘Opera Mathematica’ , a work that is exceedingly scarce and the few copies that have appeared in the last fifty years have often lacked the important volvelles. Provenance: Chatsworth House, Duke of Devonshire. – Zinner 2033; VD16 S3465; Sabin 77805. We will be happy to send you further illustrations on request. The shipping is included worldwide. Bestellung / Order: Bruce Marshall +44 1242 672997 or info@marshallrarebooks.com
A Remarkable English Celestial Atlas From Senex & Seller:
Charting Halley’s Southern Hemisphere Stars & The Visualizing
The New Coordinates Of Flamsteed
Atlas – Seller, John, senior / Senex, John / Halley, Edmund / Flamsteed,
John. Stelleri Zodiacus Stellatus [manuscript title on spine]. London, Senex
et al., n.d. (c. 1675 – c. 1721). Folio [66.5 x 3.90 cm], (8) double-page en-
graved celestial and astronomical charts (see below for full contents).
Bound in contemporary marbled boards with vellum spine, red sprinkled
edges. Wear to head of spine, lettered on spine with title ‘Stelleri Zodiacus
Stellatus’, rubbing to boards and board edges, bookplate of Macclesfield
Library inside upper cover, shelf mark on front pastedown. A few minor
edge mends to charts, very minor and entirely unobtrusive worming to a
few leaves, very minor marginal hand soiling to a few charts, blind stamp
of Macclesfield crest on blank first three leaves, the hemisphere charts with
green marker threads intact. £ 28,000
An intriguing collection of 8 very rare early English astronomical charts by the London cartogra-
phers and instrument makers John Seller (c. 1630-1697) and John Senex (c. 1678-1740), offering
the most up-to-date celestial information then available, with several of the charts based on the
recent groundbreaking observations of the English astronomers Edmond Halley (1656-1642) and
John Flamsteed (1646-1719). The present volume – preserved in its contemporary binding – is
perhaps to be associated with Seller’s elusive folio-format Atlas Coelestis, a work he is known to
have advertised in catalogues, but which has never been definitively described or identified. The
present volume may represent the core of this Seller atlas as later revised and issued by Senex
(together with charts of his own making), but whatever the genesis of this collection, it is a valu-
able witness to the leading role played by English astronomers and publishers in the field of celes-
tial cartography in the last years of the 17th-century.
The 4 charts bound at the end of the volume – 2 treating the stars of the northern hemisphere, 1
depicting those of the southern hemisphere, and 1 zodiac map – date from the 1670s and are from
the shop of Seller, who collaborated with Halley upon the astronomer’s return in 1678 from island
of St. Helena where he had catalogued southern-hemisphere stars for nearly two years. Halley
produced a detailed chart from his coordinates (engraved by Jacob Clark) which was the first ce-
lestial hemisphere made from telescopically derived locations of the southern stars (Kanas, p. 122),
and the present Australis Hemisphaerii tabulam by Seller is slightly altered issue of this work (with
the addition of the Milky Way) published within a year of Halley’s effort (Warner, p. 107, no. 1B
and p. 236, no. 4B). Also included here is Seller’s 1679 Zodiacus stellatus, “the first published
zodiac,” which was advertised in the Easter Term Catalogue of 1679 as “being very useful, at all
times, to find out the places of the Planets; wherein may be seen their daily motion, and their ap-
pulses to the Fixed stars. Accurately laid down by the said Mr. Edmund Halley” (Warner, p. 233,
no. 3). These charts could be acquired from Seller individually and rarely are to be found bound
in his Atlas Maritimus.
The first 4 charts in the present collection – 2 maps of the northern sky and 2 of the southern –
come from the shop of Senex and are early graphic witnesses of the pioneering (and painstaking)
astronomy of Flamsteed, who as Astronomer Royal was tasked with “dragging positional astrono-
my into the seventeenth century, of bringing it abreast of the new descriptive astronomy to which
the telescope has thus far been almost exclusively applied” (DSB, vol. 5&6, p. 23). Flamsteed’s
telescopic observations from Greenwich augmented the number of northern stars then known by
some 2000, vastly surpassing in number and accuracy the catalogue of Tycho Brahe. The present
Senex charts, dating to about 1721, were the first put into visual form the coordinates catalogued
by Flamsteed: “Flamsteed’s catalogue, developed from telescopic observations, was the first to
include seventh-magnitude stars [and] Senex’s maps, based on Flamsteed’s catalogues, were the
first depicting these telescopic stars … The positions of novas (i.e., new and variable stars) and
nebulas on Senex’s maps were derived from Halley’s two review articles published in Philosophi-
cal Transactions in 1715 and 1716. Thus the north equatorial map shows four new stars and two
telescopic nebulas” (Warner, p. 242). In 1704 Flamsteed, a notorious perfectionist when it came to
his charts, noted that he would not consent to the request of Isaac Newton to publish his star coor-
dinates before his charts had been completed. But “Newton’s will prevailed. The Historia Coeles-
tis of 1712 contained neither the observations nor the charts, but only the star catalogue, as
amended by Halley. Although Flamsteed was able to destroy almost all copies of the spurious
volume in 1714, a few copies remained at large. John Senex based his highly successful maps on
‘The Britannick Catalogue (as Publish’d by Dr. Halley)’. Compounding the injury, stylistic simi-
larities between the Senex and the Flamsteed maps [published posthumously in 1725 and 1729]
are sufficiently strong to suggest that Senex had actually seen Flamsteed’s yet unpublished ones”
(Warner, p. 82). “Through the charts and globes of Senex … the Halley/Flamsteed catalog was
widely available. Even after 1729, when the authorized version of Flamsteed’s atlas appeared,
because of the convenience of the single-sheet maps and their relatively low cost, Senex’s maps
continued to be popular both with astronomers and navigators” (Warner, p. 239).
The present atlas thus represents a rare artifact reflecting the state of English astronomy at the turn
of the 18th century, when “the internal relations between scientists, cartographers, publishers, and
dealers were often so complex as to obscure the specific contributions of each” (Warner, p. 237).
The present volume carries the bookplate of the Library of Earls of Macclesfield, and it is worth
noting that George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, who himself was an astronomer of some
ability, first became a member of the Royal Society in 1722 just as John Senex was publishing his
Halley/Flamsteed charts (Senex would be elected a member of the Royal Society in 1728). This
provenance would seem to make it all the more likely that the volume represents an integral atlas
as issued by Senex.
D. J. Warner, The Sky Explored: Celestial Cartography, 1500-1800; N. Kanas, Star maps: History,
Artistry, and Cartography.
The charts:
1. Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Boreale. The Northern Hemisphere Projected on the Plane of
the Aequator in which all the Stars contain’d in the Britannick Catalogue (as Publish’d by Dr.
Halley) are carefully laid down and adapted to the beginning of the year 1690. London, John
Senex, c. 1721. (Warner p. 242, no. 4A).
2. Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Australe. The Southern Hemisphere Projected on the Plane
of the Aequator in which all the Stars contain’d in the Britannick Catalogue and those Observ’d
by Sr. Edm. Halley at the Isl. of St. Helena are carefully layd down for the Year 1690 by Joseph
Harris…, engraved and sold by John Senex. London, John Senex, c. 1721. (Warner, p. 243, no.
4B).
3. Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Boreale, in quo omnes stellae in Catalogo Britannico descrip-
tae in plano Eclipticae, eo situ quem anno 1690… Delineavit et sculpsit Johan: Senex. R.S.S.
London, John Senex, c. 1721. (Warner, p. 243, no. 5A).
4. Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Australe, in plano Eclipticae depictum, omnes catalogi Bri-
tannici stellas exhibens, una cum iis quas Cl. Halleius in insula Stae. Helenae observavit, co situ
delineatas quem anno 1690 habuerunt. London, John Senex, c. 1721. (Warner, p. 243, no. 5B).
5. A Coelestiall Planisphere by J. Seller. John Seller, London, c. 1675. (Warner, p. 233, no. 2).
6. The Right Ascensions and Declinations of the Principal Fixed Stars in both Hemisphears to ye
year 1678… printed and sold by John Seller. John Seller, London, 1679. (Warner, p. 107, no. 1a
and p. 236, no. 4A).
7. Australis Hemisphaerii tabulam. John Seller, London, 1679. (Warner, p. 107, no. 1B [Halley]
and p. 236, no. 4B [Seller]).
8. Zodiacus stellatus cujus limitibus Planetarum Omnium visibles viae comprehenduntur. Autore
Jo: Seller Serenissimi Reg. Hydrographo. John Seller, London, 1679. (Warner, p. 233, no. 3).
We will be happy to send you further illustrations on request.
The shipping is included worldwide.
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The Portuguese Royal Cosmographer’s Copy Brahe, Tycho. Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica. Nuremberg, Hulsius Levinus, 1602 £ 42,500 Folio. 54 unnumbered ff. Roman letter, little Italic. Finely engraved t-p with portrait of Tycho Brahe dated 1586 within arch surrounded by arms of Danish families, 6 engravings and 25 woodcuts (mostly full-page) of astronomical instruments, buildings, maps and globes, decorated initials, head- and tailpieces, all pages with single ruled typographical border. Intermittent slight browning, small old marginal repair to few ll., minor marginal spotting. A very good copy in contemporary vellum, minor loss towards foot of spine, bookplate of Erwin Tomash to front pastedown, early casemarks on fep, contemporary in- scriptions by Dom Manuel de Meneses dated 1624, one probably indicating price, on t-p. This copy belonged to the Portuguese astronomer Dom Manuel de Meneses (c.1565- 1628), whose autograph here matches Real Academia de la Historia, ms. 9/237. He at- tended the Jesuit College in Lisbon studying mathematics and the art of navigation with João Delgado (Rodrigues, ‘História da Companhia de Jesus’, III, 186). After leading ex- peditions to the Indies as navy captain, he became court cosmographer in 1624—the year of the ex-libris in this copy. His interests in astronomical instruments were determined by his professional knowledge of navigation; incidentally, in 1627 he survived a horrendous shipwreck in the Indies in which nearly 2000 people lost their lives (see ‘Le naufrage des Portugais’, 211, 215). Lavishly illustrated second—and first trade—edition of this important work in the history of astronomical mechanics. Whilst the first edition was issued privately by the author in a lim- ited print-run of c.100 copies, largely for presentation to would-be patrons, the second was intended for wider circulation. It was completely reset and slightly revised from the first, the woodcuts and copperplates of which were sold to the printer Levinus Hulsius after Brahe’s death. Except for the engraving of an armillary sphere on C6, which substituted a woodcut of the same subject, all the handsome illustrations, of fresh impression in this copy, were based on the original plates and blocks (Honeyman I, 490). The scion to one of Denmark’s most important aristocratic family, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) studied at Copenhagen and Leipzig pursuing his multifarious interests in a variety of subjects including astronomy, as- trology (which resulted in horoscopes for famous personalities), philosophy and physics. His theorisation of ‘geo-heliocentrism’ sought to reconcile and revise the Copernican, Ptolemaic and Aristotelian systems, positing that the Sun and Moon revolved around the earth, whilst the five known planets orbited around the Sun. Devised to assist astronomers and navigators with applied calculations, ‘Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica’ illustrates the instruments Brahe constructed and employed for his research at the observatories of Uraniborg and its underground counterpart, Stjerneborg, which he established in the 1580s. Prefaced by a full- page illustration, each section explains the making (usually from iron or ‘orichalcus’, i.e., gilt brass) and workings of each instruments including several types of quadrants (‘minor’, ‘azi- muthalis’), sextants, zodiacal and equatorial armillary spheres and a superbly decorated globe. Brahe also owned a majestic ‘mural quadrant’ entirely covered with engraved decora- tions. The second part features illustrations of the architecture and plans of his observatories as well as a map of Hven, the island on which they were built, explaining the topographical rationale underlying their planning. A most important, exquisitely illustrated manual of il- lustrious provenance. USTC 2135265; BM STC Ger., p. 143 (1598 ed.); Brunet II, 1200; Houzeau & Lancaster 2703; Honeyman I, 490. Not in Riccardi. F.M. de Melo and M. de Meneses, Le naufrage des Portugais sur les côtes de Saint-Jean-de-Luz & d’Arcachon (1627), ed. P. Lizé and J.Y. Blot (Paris, 2000); F. Rodrigues, História da Companhia de Jesus na Assistência de Por- tugal (Porto, 1944), III. Free of shipping costs. Bestellung / Order: Sokol Books +44 20 73515119 or books@sokol.co.uk
Der Dopplereffekt Doppler, Christian. Ueber das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels. (Prag. 1842). (26,5 x 22 cm). SS. (465)-482. Mit 1 lithographierten Tafel. Moderner Halblederband im Stil der Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung. (Aus: Abh. der böh- mischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften). € 8.700,- Erste Ausgabe seines berühmten Hauptwerkes. – "Doppler findet das Doppler'sche Prinzip, wonach die Höhe eines Tons, sowie die Art eines Lichteindrucks davon abhängen, ob sich die Entfernung zwischen der Wellenquelle und dem empfindenden Organ vergrößert oder verringert. Dies Prinzip erlangt später in der messenden Astrophysik zur Geschwindigkeits- bestimmung der Himmelskörper in der Richtung der Gesichtslinie große Bedeutung" (Darmstaedter). – Stempel auf Titel, sonst sehr sauberes und wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. – DSB 4, 167; Norman 651; Sparrow 57; Darmstaedter 460. First edition, journal issue. – "The first statement of the Doppler principle, which relates the observed frequency of a wave to the motion of the source or the observer relative to the medium in which the wave is propagated. Doppler mentioned the application of this prin- ciple to both acoustics and optics, particularly to the colored appearance of double stars and the fluctuations of variable stars and novae... modified by relativity theory, it has become one ot the major tools of astronomy" (Norman). – Stamp to title. Recent half-calf in old style. Fine copy. Deutschland versandkostenfrei, Ausland auf Anfrage. Bestellung / Order: Antiquariat Gerhard Gruber +49 7131 45245 oder info@antiquariat-gruber.de
Dyblinski, Alberto. Centuria Astronomica. In alma Academia & Universitate Vilnensi Societatis Jesu. Vilnius, Academicis Societatis Jesu, 1639. In-12 de (8) ff., 182 pp., (1) p. d’errata Vélin ivoire, titre calligraphié au dos. Reliure de l’époque. 146 x 96 mm. € 11.500,- Très rare première et unique édition de cet important ouvrage d’astronomie « certainement l’un des meilleurs du XVIIe siècle » (The Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University). Elle est ornée de nombreuses gravures dans le texte. Dans cet important entièrement consacré à l’astronomie, Alberto Dyblinski se prononce de manière positive sur les thèses de Nicolas Copernic et statue, en se basant sur des observa- tions télescopiques, que Mercure et Vénus tournent autour du soleil. “The book of A. Dyblinski Centuria Astronomica published in 1639 was exclusively devoted to astronomy. It was a comprehensive, though popular, review of astronomy based on works of the most eminent astronomers of that time. It might have been one of the best books on astronomy in the 17th century" (The Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University). Albert Dyblinski devint l’assistant du célèbre astronome Oswald Kruger (1598-1665) mathématicien remarquable et créateur d’ingénieux instruments scientifiques. “At the end of the 15th century, Vilnius developed into a notable political and cultural center of Eastern Europe. Many famous artists and scholars resided in Lithuania at the time. The well-known Polish astronomer and mathematician Wojciech Brudzewski (1445-1497), a professor of the Cracow University and a teacher of Nicolas Copernicus, sent the last years of his life in Vilnius. In 1579, the Vilnius University was founded. This gave a great impetus to the development of science, including astronomy. The book of Albert Dyblinski “Centuria Astronomica” published in 1639 was exclusively devoted to astronomy. In this book, Dyblinski used many treatises and works of eminent astronomers of the time: Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe, Joanes Sacrobosco, Christopher Scheiner, Nicolas Copernicus. It might have been one of the best books with a thorough and popular layout of astronomical knowledge of that time” (J. Sudzius). Exemplaire conservé dans sa reliure en vélin du temps. Aucun exemplaire n’est répertorié sur le marché public depuis le début des relevés, il y a 35 ans (ABPC). Seuls 2 exemplaires localisés dans les Institutions publiques internationales : Staatsbibli- othek Zu Berlin et Ukat Union catalog of Polish Library. Sans frais d'expédition. Bestellung / Order: Librairie Amélie Sourget +33 1 42224809 ou asourget@hotmail.com
Garthe, Caspar. Beschreibung des Kosmoglobus. eines mathema- tisch-geographisch-astronomischen Instrumentes, welches die Erd- u. Himmelskugeln, wie das Planetarium, Tellurium und Lunarium so in sich vereinigt, daß dadurch alle Erscheinungen d. Weltganzen deut- lich eingesehen werden können. Stuttgart und Tübingen in der J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung 1833. XVI, 230 Seiten. 14 x 21,5 cm. 9 lithographierte Tafeln. Goldgeprägtes Perkalin der Zeit, Kantenver- goldung, Goldschnitt. € 1.450,- Erste Ausgabe, zu Beginn und gegen Ende stärker stockfleckig Johann Caspar Garthe (1796 bis 1876) war ein Naturforscher und Lehrer mit zahlreichen Experimenten, Forschungen und Erfindungen. 1827 erfand Garthe eine „Weltmaschine“, auch Kosmoglobus genannt: ein gläserner Himmelsglobus, in dessen Innern eine hölzerne Erdkugel angebracht ist. Um darauf ein preußisches Patent zu erlangen, führte er ihn mit Hilfe seines Freundes Alexander von Humboldt in Berlin vor (Wikipedia) Kostenfreier Versand innerhalb Deutschlands. Versandkosten ins Ausland auf Anfrage. Bestellung / Order: Antiquariat Büchergärtner +49 6894 9280870 oder buechergaertner@t-online.de
Henisch, Georg. Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi Cui adi- unctus est Computus Ecclesiasticus, cum Calendario triplici, & pro- gnostico tempestatum ex ortu & occasu stellarum. Augsburg, David Franck, 1609, 4to,First Edition, text of Proclus in parallel Greek and Latin, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, 2 folding tables, errata f. at end, Contemporary French Olive Morocco, Gilt, Arms of Charles de Valois, Duc d'Angoulême to covers, and his CC monogram to spine. £6,500 Henisch’s great work on the sphere, astronomy and exploration. Includes several mentions of America, Columbus and Vespucci. Hieronymus Wolf recommended Henisch for the Protestant St. Anna Gymnasium in Augs- burg, where he was professor of logic and mathematics from 1576-1617. He also taught in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and rhetoric, held the office of rector together with Simon Fabricius from 1580-93, was head of the city library at the same time and led a medical practice until his death. Four times he was dean of the Augsburg medical college. He collected and organ- ized the files of the Collegium medicum founded in 1582, thus laying the foundation for Augsburg's rich medical history. He also published the first printed catalogue of the city library in 1600; it is the oldest printed catalogue of a public library, an exemplary act. Henisch belongs to the late human- ist group at the turn of the 16th to 17th centuries, which had an impact far beyond Augsburg. Its patron and moving force was the patrician Markus Welser. He was the mathematician and natural scientist, but also the Germanist of this group, a tolerant nature, whose friendly ties and scientific ties from the Jesuits mainly in Augsburg, Munich and Dillingen to Catholic and Protestant scholars in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands were enough. He participated with Welser and Hoeschel in the publishing house "Ad insigne Pinus", which started as a joint venture between the late humanists of Augsburg and ended as a defender of a Christian middle-class humanism in the service of the Counter-Reforma- tion. In the merchant city of Augsburg, humanism was essentially focused on practical knowledge and results. H. met the wishes of the sober, calculating and counting bourgeoi- sie. His writings are strongly rational, his mind pushed for clear concepts and sensible methods. As a medical writer, he wrote a handbook and edited an edition of Aratus. The study of the heavenly bodies and the firmament occupied him all his life. Every year he delivered a mathematical-astronomical calendar and published this important commen- tary on Proclus and the use of the Sphere . He treated geography as historical auxiliary science. The crown of the sciences was mathematics. He introduced arithmetic, geometry and astronomy to the students of the high school, and for practical reasons he enjoyed greater favour with the citizens than the philologists Hoeschel and Wolf. Henisch is also the author of the first German dictionary that still serves well today. With his diligence and readiness, he managed to complete at least one volume from A-G. It is a comparative dictionary, in 10 languages: German, English, Bohemian (Czech), French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Hungarian. Provenance: Charles de Valois, duc d'Angoulême (gilt arms to covers) Tomash & Williams H103; VD17 23:289511T Nissen ZBI, 1553 & 1556. We will be happy to send you further illustrations on request. The shipping is included worldwide. Bestellung / Order: Bruce Marshall +44 1242 672997 or info@marshallrarebooks.com
Astronomy in Poetical Form and a Precursor
to the Great Star Atlases
Hyginus. De Stellis, Poeticon Astronomicon. Pavia, Octaviana Scoti,
1513. £ 4,750
4to. 52 unnumbered leaves, last blank, A-F8 G4. Gothic letter with woodcut initials of
twelve, seven and four-line height. Title page with full-page woodcut of ‘Sphaera Mundi’,
47 half-page woodcuts depicting constellations, the signs of the Zodiac, and allegories of
the seven planets. Light age yellowing, some browning at C3-8, a well-margined, crisp and
clean copy in C17th vellum over boards, brown morocco label, cracking to upper joint but
sound, all edges red.
Hyginus’s work on the constellations, known as the ‘Poetical Astronomy’, depicts 47 con-
stellations found in Ptolemy’s Almagest alongside tales from their mythological origins.
Printed in beautiful imitation of Ratdolt’s 1482 edition, this nonetheless has a more sensible
layout, keeping each image on the same page as its accompanying text that gives the stars’
location in the sky. The images are precursors of the grand star atlases of the 17th and 18th
century, such as Tycho Brahe’s Rudolphine Tables. Moreover, the accompanying stories
provide insight into the more obscure corners of classical mythology that otherwise would
not have survived, beginning in the north with Draco and the Bears, major and minor, and
ending with the Fish found in southern skies.
Hyginus compiles information from as many sources as possible for each, so many descrip-
tions catalogue the myths of different cultures. For instance, the Serpent-Holder called
Ophiuchus is Phorbas according to the Rhodians, because he aided them in ridding the Is-
land of Ophiussa of its overgrown snakes. To the Romans, he is Aesculapius, a great medi-
cine man, who holds a snake because the same had brought herbs to him which he used to
bring a man back to life – hence the Rod of Asclepius which symbolises healing. The final
portion of the book offers a similar treatment to the planets. Detailed woodcuts depict the
Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars, each equipped with chariots pulled
by animals of allegorical significance: for instance melancholy Saturn with his scythe, his
chariot pulled by dragons, its hubcaps embossed with the signs of the zodiac over which he
rules: Capricorn and Aquarius. After the procession of these chariots, in excellent strong
impressions, the work ends with poems by Jacobus Sentinus Ricinensis and Jioannes An-
dreas dedicated to the reader’s happiness in his new knowledge of the heavens, and in praise
Hyginus’ labors.
Hyginus may be Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC – AS 17), a Latin author famous for his col-
lections of some 300 fables in addition to this ‘poetical astronomy’. At the time of publica-
tion of the work, he was believed to be its author, although more recent scholars suggest a
later author, or a later abridgement of what Hyginus actually wrote. On the other hand, the
work follows Ptolemy’s so closely, with its star list in exactly the same order, that there is
still a case for the second century author.
M STC It. 337 Cantamessa II p. 1302. USTC 836045. Essling 290. Sander II 3477. Not in
Adams, Houzeau &Lancaster, Kenney.
Free of shipping costs.
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+44 20 73515119 or books@sokol.co.ukAn Incunable Analysis of Celestial Bodies Leopoldus of Austria. Compilatio … de astrorum scientia decem continentis tractatus. Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 9 January 1489. £ 15,000 FIRST EDITION. 4to. 110 unnumbered leaves. a–n8, o6, (lacking blank o6). Roman letter. Entirely rubricated including white on black floriated woodcut initials, many woodcuts, including full page “sphaera mundi,” two printed in red and black, illustrating signs of the zodiac, classical deities, celestial spheres, astrological charts, heading on N1 verso corrected in contemporary hand, list of titles, crossed out on first leaf, in later hand. Title page backed, small worm trail restored in blank margins of first three leaves, minor waterstain in lower blank margin, the odd spot or mark. A very good copy, crisp and clean in later calf, covers bordered with a double blind rule, re-backed, spine partially remounted, corners restored. First and only incunable edition of this important and influential astronomy treatise by the 13th century astronomer, Leopold of Austria, beautifully illustrated with a fine set of woodcuts. Ratdolt, who was even more widely renowned as a polymath and astronomer than as a printer, also published the astronomical works of Albumasar and Hyginus. His woodcuts for those projects are among the earliest known printed figures of constellations, and the same blocks were employed for this edition of Leopoldus in Ratdolt’s Augsburg workshop. Two of the astronomical diagrams are printed in red and black, a technique pioneered by Ratdolt. Primarily a work of astrology based on the writings of Albumasar, the sixth book concerns meteorology both from theoretical and practical points of view, and includes folkloric methods of weather prediction as well as general descriptions of winds, thunder, and other natural elements. Although virtually nothing is known of the author, the work was influen- tial in the late Middle Ages, being cited by the great astronomer, Pierre d’Ailly, and admired by Regiomontanus, who proposed to edit it. Ratdolt dedicated this edition to Udalricus de Frundsberg, bishop of Trient. In the introduction, Leopold states that he cannot take credit for the work as there was more than one author, and that he is just a “fidelis illorum obser- vator et diligens compilator.” His stated goal is to describe the motions of the stars, with a particular focus on their effect on the universe. He describes Astronomy as the foundation of and a necessary starting point in the study of astrology. The Compilatio is divided into ten treatises: the first and second are on spheres and their motion. There is a dissertation on the nine comets at the end of the fifth book, beginning with a short discussion of Aristotle’s theories, which recounts the opinion of John of Damascus (676 – c. 749), who asserts in his “De Fide Orthodoxa” that these celestial bodies announce the death of the King, and that they do not belong to the stars created in the beginning, but are formed and dissolved by God’s will. He then gives a list of the nine comets and their Latin names, ending with the meanings derived from their presence in each Zodiacal sign. The volume includes a transcription of Albumasar’s “De magnis Conjunctionibus.” A very good copy of this beautifully illustrated and rare first edition, one of the earliest books effectively illustrated with scientific diagrams. BMC II 382. Goff L185. GW M17974. Hain 10042. Caillet 6636. “Incunable de toute rar- ité” Brunet III, 1033. “Edition rare.” Honeyman V 1989. Cantamessa II 4422. “Imponente e importante trattato in 10 libri.” Houzeau-Lancaster 4702 “fort rare.” Free of shipping costs. Bestellung / Order: Sokol Books +44 20 73515119 or books@sokol.co.uk
Lowiz (or Lowitz), Georg Moritz. Kurze Erklärung über zwey Astrono- mische Karten von der Sonnen- oder Erd-Finsternis den 25. Julius 1748. Zu derselben deutlicher Einsicht und bequemen Gebrauch bey künfftiger Wahrnehmung dieser Himmels-Begebenheit denjenigen zu Liebe, die der Astronomie nicht kundig sind... Nürnberg, Homann, 1748. 24 pages, one folded engraved and handcoloured plate, 2 large folded engraved and handcoloured maps. Cont. plain boards. 4to (208 x 168 mm). Covers lightly stained and rubbed. € 4.500,- Stadt Nürnberg Stadtarchiv (ed.), Der Verlag Homann in Nürnberg 1702-1848, p. 137, 17; BMC XV, 522; Poggendorff I, 150; Meusel VIII, 364; not in Kenney and in Barchas Collec- tion; not in Houzeau-Lancaster. First edition. Scarce work on the solar eclipses of 1748 with the often missing maps based on calculations by Leonhard Euler: Projectio orthographica tel- lurus. Illustri ac per omnem Europam celeberrimo viro Dno. Leonhardo Eulero. Four figures of hemispheric world maps are presented showing the predicted eclipse of 1748, based upon the calculations of the important 18th Century Swiss mathematician and astronomer Leonhard Euler. The chart was conceived by Georg Moritz Lowitz, also mathematician and astronomer, who worked for Homann in the 1740s. The top hemisphere is blank and has the eclipse super- imposed. The other three hemispheres appear in various projections and show the effects of the eclipse at different times in relation to the continents. Various scales and measurements are included near the lower margin. Two ornate rococo cartouches provide the titles and descrip- tions of the print in German and French. According to scholar Robert H. van Gent, this chart was engraved in 1747, and also issued later in 1748 as Plate 31 of Atlas Novus Coelestis. Lower margin with brown stain. – KVK: Berlin, Halle, Hannover, Erfurt, Göttingen, Jena, Oldenburg, Regensburg, Augsburg, München [without maps], et al.; ETHZ (without maps); COPAC: BL London, Glasgow; OCLC: Brigham Young. Innerhalb Europas versandkostenfrei, Welt auf Anfrage. Bestellung / Order: Antiquariat Michael Banzhaf +49 7071 552314 oder Antiquariat-Banzhaf@t-online.de
Padovani [Paduanus], Giovanni. De compositione, et usu multifor- mium horologium solarium ad omnes totius orbis regiones, ac situs in qualibet superficie. Large woodcut printer's device on title, vi- gnettes, historiated initials, numerous tables, large text illustrations and diagrams, some with contemp. ms. Annotations. (4), 268, (12) pp., (2) errata leaves at the end (pp. 5-8 omitted from pagination). 4to (210 x 160 mm). Original stiff vellum. Venice, Franciscus Francisci the elder, 1582. CHF 1.800.- Important treatise of this comprehensive work on sundials by the Italian astronomer and mathematical practitioner of Verona who designed and built his own instruments for sale. Giovanni Padovani (b. 1512) manual is expanded from the first edition of 1570. His work treats calendric manipulation, calculation of time and computus, sphaera recta with associ- ated astrological concepts, sexagesimal calculation, planetary theory, and use of the astro- labe to aid in calculation, including extensive tables of declinations for various latitudes with both occidental and oriental example. There are copies known without errata leaves.- First and last quires waterstained, some minor defects or internal wear, otherwise good. – STC, Italian 483; EDIT 16 CNCE 28147; Honeyman 2384; Houzeau/Lancaster 11375; Riccardi II, 233. Versandkostenfrei. Bestellung / Order: Antiquariat Hellmut Schumann +41 44 2510272 oder info@schumann.ch
Ryd, Valerius [with] Stöffler, Johann. (1) Catalogus annorum et prin- cipum geminus ab homine condito. (2) n procli Diadochi…Sphaeram mundi…commentarius. (1) Bern (2) Tubingen (1) [Matthias Apiarius] (2)Ulrich I Morhart (1) 1540 (2) 1534. £ 9,500 FIRST EDITIONS. Folio. 2 works in 1, ff. (vi) 48 (viii) 135 [136] (i). Roman letter, little Italic. Woodcut printer’s device to t-p of first, woodcut author’s portrait to last of second, c.100 woodcut portraits of princes, genealogies, biblical and historical scenes to first, wood- cut astrological schema to second, decorated initials and ornaments. Minor marginal thumb- ing to first t-p, scattered worm holes touching letter in a few places, slight browning with occasional faint marginal waterstaining to couple of gatherings of second. Very good copies in contemporary Swiss calf, traces of ties, double blind ruled to a panel design, outer border with roll of female allegorical figures and male and female figures in various poses, centre panel with rolls of male and female half figures in profile separated by ornamental designs, raised bands, spine double blind ruled in five compartments, large fleuron in blind to each, very slight rubbing and worming, small repair at foot of spine, loss to lower outer corner. Early casemark to front pastedown, ‘1302’ inked to t-p of first, titles inked to upper and lower fore-edges. Handsomely bound, finely illustrated historico-astrological sammelband. Valerius Ryd (Valerius Anshelm, 1475-1546/7) was a Swiss historian and the official chronicler of the city of Bern. Written c.1510 and widely circulated in ms., it is a history of the world ‘ab homine condito’ (from the Creation) to the early C16, handsomely illustrated with biblical and historical scenes, heraldic shields, portraits of princes and genealogical trees in the style of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Ryd relied on the tradition of ‘universal historiography’ dating back to Eusebius’s ‘Chronicon’ (4th century), which rooted the history of the world in the genealogies of Genesis from Adam and Eve. The pivotal ancestor was Noah, whose three sons populated the world anew after the Flood—Japhet in Europe, Shem in Asia and Cham in Africa. Expanded by the Renaissance scholar Annius of Viterbo, this view of history embraced ancient and present civilisations within an immense genealogical network filling the gaps between Genesis and history with mythical figures like Hercules, the Amazons and Gomer, and it identified the passing of history with the (often artificial) linear progression of royal lines. The genealogies of the Four Kingdoms of Daniel—the empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome—are followed by those of European princes and the succession of the Popes. A beautifully crafted instance of the early modern chronicle tradition. Johann Stöffler (1452-1531) was a German astrologer, astronomer and priest who taught at Tubingen and produced globes and clocks for notables including the Bishop of Konstanz. This sammelband features his most important, posthumous ‘Commentarius’ to Pseudo- Proclus’s ‘Sphaera’—a major text on cosmography for Renaissance astronomer. However, ‘Commentarius’ presents Latin excerpts mostly from another ancient astronomical manual, Geminus’s ‘Isagoge’, discussing the structure of the earth, the trajectory of the sun, the zodiac and constellations. ‘Catalogus’ is renowned for its cartographically detailed refer- ences to the New World. For instance, in a paragraph on oceanic navigation Stöffler men- tioned Vespucci’s discoveries and in another commenting on lands beyond the ‘terra cog- nita’ delineated by Ptolemy he mentioned new cartographic additions like ‘the western province of America near and partially under the Tropic of Capricorn’. Free of shipping costs. Bestellung / Order: Sokol Books +44 20 73515119 or books@sokol.co.uk
SACRO BOSCO. Sphaera mundi. (with :) Georgius Purbachius :
Theoricae novae planetarum. Regiomontanus : Disputationes con-
tra Cremonensia deliramenta. Venise, Erhard Ratdolt, 1485. In-4
de 58 ff. Demi-veau brun sur ais de bois à 3 nerfs. (Reliure de
l'époque.) € 75.000,-
Copiously annotated copy by a sixteenth century hand. A learned comment, in an elegant
and very legible calligraphy comparing the text of the three books in this collection with
those of various astronomers: there are references to Albumasar [Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi],
Andalo Di Negro, Abraham Ibn Erza, Ali Abenragel [Abu Ali ibn ar-Rigal], Zahel [Sahl ibn
Bishr], Abubatrid [Abu Yahya al-Batrid], Guido Bonatti …
Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi (editio princeps 1472) was the first printed astronomical
book, «a small work based on Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators, ... [which was] quite
generally adopted as the fundamental astronomy text» (DSB). It is accompanied in this
edition by Georg Peurbach’s Theoricae novae planetarum and a tract by Regiomontanus
which concerns corrections to the planetary tables of Gerard of Sabbioneta. Full-page
woodcut diagram of an armillary sphere on verso of 1st leaf; 61 woodcut diagrams, 7 are
printed or coloured in olive, yellow brown and red. This is the first book to include an
illustration printed in three colours of ink. ISTC ij00406000.
[BOUND WITH]:
ALCHABITIUS. Libellus isagogicus. (with :) Johannes de Saxonia. In Alchabitium (Edité
par Bartholomaeus Alten). Venise, Erhard Ratdolt, 1485. Illustrated by 5 woodcuts. This is
a treatise on judicial astrology or the prediction of events by observing the position of
planets and stars. ISTC ia00363000.
[BOUND WITH] :
ABRAHAM ABEN EZRA. De nativitatibus. (with:) Henricus Bate. Compositio astrolabii.
Venise, Erhard Ratdolt, 5 January 1485. Illustrated by 16 woodcuts. Editio princeps and
only incunabula edition. The Liber de nativitatibus, which can be dated to 1154 on the basis
of internal evidence, appears to have been originally composed in Latin, most probably by
Abraham Ibn Ezra himself or under his supervision. The Liber de nativitatibus is extant in
Video : https://www.latude.net/loc/fr_FR/videos.php at least four manuscripts and one printed edition. This work explains how to interpret a
nativity (birth horoscope) in twelve chapters corresponding to the twelve houses. Several
authorities are quoted, including Hermes, Ptolemy, Andruzagar, Messahallah, Zael, and
Albumasar. ISTC ia00009200.
Sans frais d'expédition.
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