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307 - PICCOLOMINI (Alessandro). La Sfera del mondo. Venice, Giovan…
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PICCOLOMINI (Alessandro). La Sfera del mondo. Venice, Giovanni Varisco, 1573. - Bound at the end, by the same author:] De le stelle fisse libro uno. Ibid, 1570. 2 works in one volume in-4, stiff vellum, spine ribbed, edges mottled (Binding of the period). New edition of this important treatise on Ptolemaic cosmography, followed, as it should be, by the first true printed celestial atlas: "the first printed star atlas... [and] the first printed set of maps of the stars, as opposed to simple pictures of constellations, and introducing the practice of identifying stars by letter" (Warner) The two treatises La Sfera del mondo and De le stelle fisse were combined in the original Venetian edition of 1540. The woodcut illustrations consist of diagrams in the text and 47 full-page celestial maps in the second work. Light dampstaining to the first few leaves, occasional foxing, angular loss affecting the text on f. 17 of the second volume. Riccardi II, 270 - D. J. Warner, The Sky Explored, 1979, p. 200 - CNCE 40406 and 41091.
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About the sale Antiquarian books from the 15th to the 19th century - Astronomy
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