Danti, Egnazio

4to (218 x 143mm.), woodcut printer's device (with the Medici arms on a globe depicting Asia and Africa) on title-page and A3v, woodcut initials and illustrations, nineteenth-century Italian half vellum, black lettering-pieces on spine, manuscript annotations in two different hands, a few small stains

Di Leone Nola ebreo [?] et soi amici, early inscription on title-page

Censimento 16 CNCE 15995; Houzeau and Lancaster 3288; IA 149.985; Riccardi i, 389

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FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest astronomical treatises in Italian, subsequently expanded and reissued by the Giunta press in 1578. Danti worked in Florence under the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, for whom he painted frescos of maps of the different regions of the world, following Ptolemy, in the Palazzo Vecchio. He later taught mathematics in Bologna and became papal cosmographer.