Ptolemaeus, Claudius

Folio (302 x 200mm.), woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on last page, 2 double-page woodcut star maps by Johannes Honter, numerous column-width woodcut text diagrams, historiated and decorative woodcut initials, old vellum, browned throughout, a few traces of censorship of the editor's name, lower margin of both maps cut close affecting quire marks, small tear on spine

Adams P2208;  VD16, P-5205; Warner, Sky Explored 123; Zinner 2026

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The fourth edition of Ptolemy's astronomical writings, but the first to be edited by Oswald Schreckenfuchs, professor of mathematics at the University of Tubingen.

This edition also includes the two star maps by Honter found in the 1541 edition but using a smaller font in the caption.