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AMICO, Giambattista (1512-1538) De motibus corporum coelesti...

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 228

AMICO, Giambattista (1512-1538) De motibus corporum coelesti...

Schätzpreis
1.200 £ - 1.800 £
ca. 1.491 $ - 2.237 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.125 £
ca. 2.641 $
Beschreibung:

AMICO, Giambattista (1512-1538). De motibus corporum coelestium iuxta principia peripatetica sine eccentricis & epicyclis. Venice: Giovanni Patavino and Venturino Roffinello, 1536.
AMICO, Giambattista (1512-1538). De motibus corporum coelestium iuxta principia peripatetica sine eccentricis & epicyclis. Venice: Giovanni Patavino and Venturino Roffinello, 1536. Small 4° (202 x 147mm). Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating publisher's device, woodcut diagrams, with final blank. (Top margin of title closely shaved with slight loss, small wormhole in upper margin of first two gatherings, causing slight loss in title.) Modern vellum boards (new endpapers). Provenance: bookseller’s label (on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Amico was a distinguished astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. A follower of the maxims of Aristotle, he tried to explain the variety of movements of celestial bodies in concentric spheres. Houzeau & Lancaster 2462: ‘ Rare’; Riccardi I, 30.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 228
Auktion:
Datum:
30.11.2016
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

AMICO, Giambattista (1512-1538). De motibus corporum coelestium iuxta principia peripatetica sine eccentricis & epicyclis. Venice: Giovanni Patavino and Venturino Roffinello, 1536.
AMICO, Giambattista (1512-1538). De motibus corporum coelestium iuxta principia peripatetica sine eccentricis & epicyclis. Venice: Giovanni Patavino and Venturino Roffinello, 1536. Small 4° (202 x 147mm). Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating publisher's device, woodcut diagrams, with final blank. (Top margin of title closely shaved with slight loss, small wormhole in upper margin of first two gatherings, causing slight loss in title.) Modern vellum boards (new endpapers). Provenance: bookseller’s label (on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Amico was a distinguished astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. A follower of the maxims of Aristotle, he tried to explain the variety of movements of celestial bodies in concentric spheres. Houzeau & Lancaster 2462: ‘ Rare’; Riccardi I, 30.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 228
Auktion:
Datum:
30.11.2016
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
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