Astrolabes.- Población (Juan Martinez) De Usu Astrolabi Compendium, Schematibus Commodissimis Illustratum, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and illustration, numerous annotations in a contemporary hand, lacking final 6ff. (see note), G5 repaired at head with printed pagination supplied by hand, occasional light marginal dampstaining, short repaired tear to endpaper, modern vellum, [Tomash & Williams P96], 8vo, Paris, Jean Barbé for Jacques Gazeau, 1546.
⁂ A treatise on use of the astrolabe by a lecturer in the Collège Royale, first printed in Paris in 1519, and reprinted there at least seven times (the last in 1557). This copy lacks 6 leaves at the end of the book, where Población reprinted Giorgio Valla's translation of a short text on the astrolabe by the Byzantine astronomer Nikephorus Gregoras.
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