Liber Ioannis De Sacro Busto De Sphaera Addita Est Praefatio In Eundem Librum Philippi

by Johannes De Sacrobosco Philipp Melanchthon John Of Holywood

A$3,400 · Offered by Hordern House

Venice: Francesco Bindoni and Maffeo Pasini, 1541. 12mo, 64 pp., complete with blank leaf D8; with woodcut title vignette, woodcuts of astronomical diagrams throughout, contemporary marginalia to lower margin of 5 pages; Bindoni's woodcut printer's device Archangel Raphael and Tobias on colophon; Melanchthon's name excised or scribbled out from title and following few pages; good modern panelled dark calf binding. Venice-printed:

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