Hyginus, De mundi et sphaerae, Venice, 1517, later half red morocco

HYGINUS

De mundi et sphaerae ac utriusque partium declaratione. Cum planetis et variis signis historiatis. (Venice: Melchiorre Sessa and Pietro Ravani, 24 March 1517)

4to (209 x 144mm.), woodcut illustration of an eastern astronomer on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, with final blank leaf, modern half red morocco, title-page lightly foxed

The woodcuts were based on those in Sessa's 1502 edition.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 23026; Sander 3478

PROVENANCE:

Thoma Landrani, early inscription at head of title-page; Walter Ashburner (1864-1936), inscription at foot of title-page dated Florence, 1921 and his armorial stamp at end