Kalendarium . Incipit: Aureus hic liber est non est preciosior ulla Gemma kalendario quod docet istud opus …

by Johannes Regiomontanus

$165,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books · No longer available

Venice: Bernhard Maler Pictor, Peter Löslein and Erhard Ratdolt, 1476. / Second edition, an extraordinary complete copy, of Regiomontanus's Calendarium, the first printed in Italy. The book is a printing milestone on four counts: the first book to have a title page placing title, place, date, and printer at the head of the opening leaf rather than in a colophon at the end ; the first book dated with Arabic rather than Roman numerals; the

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