拍品 555
  • 555

REGIOMONTANUS, [CALENDAR], VENICE, 1514

估價
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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描述

  • In laudem operis calendarii a Joanne de Monteregio Germanorum decoris nostre etatis astronomorum principis editi Jacobo Sentini Ricinensis Carmina. Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1514
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (217 x 158mm.), title and tables printed in red and black, some initials printed in red, woodcut diagrams, two full-page diagrams, one with volvelles, one with an articulated brass pointer, a few early manuscript annotations, later boards, a few worm-holes in the printed area, some restoration, possibly in facsimile, around the brass pointer, the two full-page diagrams on hinges

來源

Harrison D. Horblit (1912-1988), book label; bought from Thomas Scheler, Paris, 1987, Catalogue 12: Précurseurs et novateurs: Mathématiques, item 423

出版

Tomash & Williams R57; Edit16 75743 (Biblioteca Palatina, Parma, only); USTC 763802 (locates three more copies)

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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拍品資料及來源

A beautifully produced edition of Regiomontanus’s calendar.