Sphaera mundi

by Johannes de Sacrobosco

$13,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1490 .After Manilius’s Astronomica, Sacrobosco’s Sphaera was the first printed book on astronomy Ferrara: 1472 . Small quarto 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 197 x 150 mm . 48 leaves. Woodcuts and diagrams, seven of which are colored. With the full-page woodcut portraying Urania, Ptolemy, and Astronomia

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