Novae Ephemerides Coelestium Motum Annorum 40 Incipientes Anno Domini 1581 Usq Ad Annum1620

by Antonio Magini

$4,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

Venice: Damianum Zenarium, 1582. 4to. 605, 1 leaves. Printers device on title-page and on last verso leaf of colophon. Woodcut borders and charts, text illustrations, diagrams and tables throughout. Each year has a separate title as well as pages dealing variously with the calculations of the movements of celestial bodies, planetary positions, solar and lunar eclipses, festivals, annual revolutions, fixed stars, and much more. Contemporary vellum; text

• Binding: Leather

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