Lot 181
Astronomy & Astrology.- Cardano (Girolamo) Libelli duo. Vnus, de supplemento Almanach. Alter, de Restitutione temporum & motuum coeslestium, first edition, Nuremberg, Johann Petri, 1543.
Hammer Price: £2,000
Description
Astronomy & Astrology.- Cardano (Girolamo) Libelli duo. Vnus, de supplemento Almanach. Alter, de Restitutione temporum & motuum coeslestium, first edition, title with woodcut oval portrait of the author, woodcut charts, diagrams and historiated and decorative initials, lacking final blank, title with some restoration (just touching a few letters) and some soiling, marginal repairs, see in particular part of lower blank corner of final f., some spotting and staining, lightly browned, later vellum over boards, some staining, [Caillet 2013; Durling 857; Houzeau & Lancaster 4826; Riccardi I, 1. 250]; VD 16 C 940], small 4to, Nuremberg, Johann Petri, 1543.
⁂ Rare copy at auction of the first edition of Cardano's work on the fundamentals of astronomy for astrologers, including the determination of the correct length of the solar, tropical, and sidereal years, and followed by a section of 67 horoscopes of notables, including Petrarch, Luther, Cicero, Erasmus, Dürer, and Alciati.
Description
Astronomy & Astrology.- Cardano (Girolamo) Libelli duo. Vnus, de supplemento Almanach. Alter, de Restitutione temporum & motuum coeslestium, first edition, title with woodcut oval portrait of the author, woodcut charts, diagrams and historiated and decorative initials, lacking final blank, title with some restoration (just touching a few letters) and some soiling, marginal repairs, see in particular part of lower blank corner of final f., some spotting and staining, lightly browned, later vellum over boards, some staining, [Caillet 2013; Durling 857; Houzeau & Lancaster 4826; Riccardi I, 1. 250]; VD 16 C 940], small 4to, Nuremberg, Johann Petri, 1543.
⁂ Rare copy at auction of the first edition of Cardano's work on the fundamentals of astronomy for astrologers, including the determination of the correct length of the solar, tropical, and sidereal years, and followed by a section of 67 horoscopes of notables, including Petrarch, Luther, Cicero, Erasmus, Dürer, and Alciati.
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