AVIENUS, RUFUS FESTUS. ARATI PHAENOMENA. VENICE: ANTONIUS DE STRATA, DE CREMONA, 25 OCTOBER 1488

估價

15,000 - 20,000 USD

招標截止

描述

Arati Phaenomena. Venice: Antonius De Strata, de Cremona, 25 October 1488

4to (211 x 160 mm). 121 leaves (of 122, first blank lacking). 38 lines. 38 woodcuts depicting signs of the zodiac and constellations; early marginalia faded, tiny hole to n3 affecting one letter, marginal repair to a9. 19th century gilt morocco with silk pastedowns.

來源

Thomas Gaisford (bookplate); F B Lorch (morocco book label); sale, Christie's Paris, 20 June 2002, lot 3

出版

BMC V, 294 (IA. 21262); BSB-Ink A-969; Essling 431; Goff A-1432; GW 3131; HC *2224 = H 2223; Klebs 137.1; Sander 718

拍品資料及來源

FIRST EDITION of the author's astronomical and geographical works, Included is 'Ora Maritima', an account of Greek and Carthaginian maritime routes and the only surviving translation of the lost 6th-century B.C. merchants' handbook Massaliote Periplus. THE FIRST RECORDED USE OF "ABRACADABRA" OCCURS ON P3V.