Lot 596
  • 596

SCULTETUS, SPHAERICORUM LIBRI TRES, HEIDELBERG, 1595

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sphæricorum libri tres. Methodicé conscripti & utilibus scholiis expositi. Accessit de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis & perspicus Bartholomæi Pitisci. Heidelberg: Abraham Smesmann for Matthaeus Harnisch, 1595, woodcut printer’s device on title and colophon, woodcut diagrams, [T&W S74; VD16 S4448, P3086]
Casmann, Otto (1562-1607). Astrologia, chronographia et astromanteia. Frankfurt am Main: Zacharias Palthenius, 1599, folding letterpress table, [T&W C36; USTC 681842; VD16 C1365], title with piece torn away at foot affecting imprint 2 works bound in one volume, 8vo (167 x 95mm.), contemporary vellum, yapp edges

Provenance

Casmann: title inscribed: Ex dono Georgi Hartmanni possidet Hermannus Hassie Landgrauius ad 1637 die 3 Martii (i.e. Hermann IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, 1607-1658); Dukes of Arenberg, Plettenberg'schen Bibliothek, Schloss Nordkirchen, bookplate; bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1992 Landgraf Herman IV von Hessen-Rotenburg was a renowned researcher in mathematics and astronomy. In 1624, aged just 17, he wrote an astronomical and meteorological Schreibkalender at Plesse Castle near Göttingen as a gift for his father, Moritz “der Gelehrte” of Hesse-Kassel (1572-1632); his most famous work is the Historia meteorologica, published in 1651 after decades of systematic weather observations. Another book from his library is offered as lot 583.

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Catalogue Note

The appendix to the first work is provided by Bartholomäus Pitiscus, and according to Tomash and Williams is “the first book in which the term trigonometry appeared”.