Ephemeridum Opvs Ioannis Stoefleri

by Johann Stoeffler

$8,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

First edition

Tübingen: U. Morhart, 1531. First edition. Quarto 7 5/8 x 6 1/16 inches; 192 x 155 mm . Complete with 318 leaves. Leaf 38 blank as usual. Text in Latin. Title-page with woodcut portrait of Stoeffler, previously mistaken for Copernicus. With three large woodcut initials. With numerous tables and text diagrams throughout.We could find not other copy at auction in the past fifty years.Seventeenth-century

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