Piccolomini (Alessandro) De la Sfera del Mondo, woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and initials, Venice, Giovanni Varisco & Company, 1559; bound with De Le Stelle Fisse, woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations and initials, 47 full-page woodcut star maps (mis-numbered to 48), a few leaves browned, last few leaves with slight worming with occasional loss of text, Venice, Giovanni Varisco & Company, 1559, together 2 works in 1 (as often), contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, ties, upper hinge broken and binding becoming detached, [Norman 1696; Houzeau & Lancaster I, 2491; EDIT 16 CNCE 47398], 4to

⁂ The second work contains the first star atlas to be published in the Western World. It also introduces the practice of identification of stars by letter, which would later be adopted and expanded by Bayer.