POBLACIÓN, DE USU ASTROLABI, PARIS, 1546, MODERN VELLUM

8vo (154 x 92mm.), woodcut initials and illustrations throughout, modern vellum, numerous contemporary annotations, G5 repaired with minor area supplied in facsimile, marginal repair to preliminary leaf, occasional dampstaining, some annotations cropped, lacking 6ff at end (see footnote)

bought from Librairie Alain Brieux, Paris, 1990; Erwin Tomash, booklabel

BP16 112577; Palau 156391; Tomash & Williams P96; USTC 149570

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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A treatise on use of the astrolabe by a lecturer in the Collège Royale, first printed in Paris in 1519, and reprinted there at least seven times (the last in 1557). This copy lacks 6 leaves at the end of the book, where Población reprinted Giorgio Valla's translation of a short text on the astrolabe by the Byzantine astronomer Nikephorus Gregoras.