拍品 304
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JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO, LIBELLUS DE ANNI RATIONE, WITTENBERG, 1550, CONTEMPORARY PIGSKIN

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1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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描述

  • Libellus de sphæra. Accessit... computus ecclesiaticus, et alia quædam in studiosorum gratiam edita. Cum præfatione Philippi Melanthonis (Libellus… de anni ratione; Cisio Ianus in carmina redactus). (Wittenberg: Johann Krafft, 1550), woodcut diagrams, 4 with volvelles (on B7r, B8r, C5v, D5v), 2 with old hand-colour
Gemma Frisius (1508-1555). Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis. Wittenberg: (Heirs of Peter Seitz), 1551 (1550), woodcut vignette of a teacher and pupil on title, diagrams, errata printed above colophon 2 works bound in one volume, 8vo (157 x 97mm.), contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, stamped "IRH 1515" [or 1518?] on upper cover and with a roll-tool containing the date 1544, two clasps, binding rubbed and slightly chipped, lacking one strap

來源

inscriptions on flyleaf dated 1551 and 1553 (names crossed through); Bernhardus Matthaeus, inscription dated 1670, written over an earlier inscription, and his black wax seal on title with the initials BM; bought from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Worcester, MA, 1988

出版

Sacro Bosco: Tomash & Williams S5, S4; USTC 667489; VD16 J728; Gemma: Tomash & Williams G33; Hoogendoorn p.358 GemF04 (no copy examined); VD16 G1115 (same setting of the title-page and same colophon, but with date 1550 on title-page)

Condition

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