Dialexis De Novae Et Prius Incognitae Stellae Inusitatae Magnitudinis Et Splendidissimi

by Tadea Hajek Z Hajku Thaddaeus Hagecius

$48,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

SOLE EDITION. A very fine copy with a few small spots and a minor marginal stain to one leaf. With woodcut diagrams and a full-page woodcut map showing the nova within the constellation of Cassiopeia personified. The style of this map was copied directly from Dürer Warner . Original limp vellum binding defective at head of spine from a medieval manuscript leaf. Extremely rare. Harvard and Stanford only in North America.

• Binding: Leather

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