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Lot 206
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Joannes Hispalensis, Joachim Camerarius and Lucas Gauricus

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Three sixteenth-century astrological works, comprising:
  • Paper
Joannes Hispalensis. Epitome totius astrologiae [with preface by Joachim Heller]. Nuremberg: Ulrich Neuber and Johann Vom Berg, 1548, 4to (194 x 143mm.), woodcut title vignette and initials, tables, [VD16 J766; Zinner 1931], slight dampstaining in lower margin of quires P and Q

Astrologica [edited by Joachim Camerarius]. Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1532, 2 parts, 4to (183 x 139mm.), text in Latin and Greek, woodcut capitals, [VD16 ZV 2840; Zinner 1479], lacking blank leaf between the two parts, worming at foot of gutter



Gauricus, Lucas. Tractatus astrologiae judiciariae de nativitatibus virorum & mulierum. Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1540, part 1 only (of 2), 4to (193 x 140mm.), tables, [VD16 G558; Zinner 1746], a-e4 f6 only, title-page browned, slight dampstaining



together 3 volumes, uniformly bound in nineteenth-century calf, covers very slight scuffed, joints slightly worn

Provenance

Epitome: Benedictine monastery of S. Georgius at Prüfening, inscription on title-page

Condition

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