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JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO (1190-ca.1250). Sphaera mundi [with other tracts]. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct, 1490. Chancery 4° (220 x 160mm). Roman type. Full-page woodcut on verso of title showing Astronomia enthroned by Uran...

Auction 25.04.2012
25.04.2012
Schätzpreis
2.800 £ - 3.500 £
ca. 4.484 $ - 5.605 $
Zuschlagspreis:
5.625 £
ca. 9.008 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 89

JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO (1190-ca.1250). Sphaera mundi [with other tracts]. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct, 1490. Chancery 4° (220 x 160mm). Roman type. Full-page woodcut on verso of title showing Astronomia enthroned by Uran...

Auction 25.04.2012
25.04.2012
Schätzpreis
2.800 £ - 3.500 £
ca. 4.484 $ - 5.605 $
Zuschlagspreis:
5.625 £
ca. 9.008 $
Beschreibung:

JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO (1190-ca.1250). Sphaera mundi [with other tracts]. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct, 1490. Chancery 4° (220 x 160mm). Roman type. Full-page woodcut on verso of title showing Astronomia enthroned by Urania and Ptolemy, large woodcut of the 'Sphaera mundi' on a3v, woodcut initials, diagrams and illustrations, 7 diagrams of planetary orbits coloured in stencil. (Marginal worming to first 8 leaves, tiny burn-hole on full-page woodcut, some soiling, mainly marginal, light waterstaining.) Later vellum, label on spine (some staining, a tiny hole). Provenance : Collalti Bibliothek (bookplate dated 1771) -- F. Fraternali (book dealer's stamp). The Sphaera mundi is Sacrobosco's most popular astronomical treaties and one of the most frequently reprinted scientific books of the 15th century: over 30 editions are recorded between 1472 and 1501. In the present edition it is accompanied by J. Regiomantanus, Disputationes contra Cremonensia and G. Peurbach, Theoricae novae planetarum . The woodcuts first appeared in Johannes Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis's edition of 31 March 1488. HC*14113; BMC V, 438; IGI 5346; BSB-Ink I-507; CIBN J-273; Bod-inc J-184; Klebs 874.14; Goff J-409.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 89
Auktion:
Datum:
25.04.2012
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
25 April 2012, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO (1190-ca.1250). Sphaera mundi [with other tracts]. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 4 Oct, 1490. Chancery 4° (220 x 160mm). Roman type. Full-page woodcut on verso of title showing Astronomia enthroned by Urania and Ptolemy, large woodcut of the 'Sphaera mundi' on a3v, woodcut initials, diagrams and illustrations, 7 diagrams of planetary orbits coloured in stencil. (Marginal worming to first 8 leaves, tiny burn-hole on full-page woodcut, some soiling, mainly marginal, light waterstaining.) Later vellum, label on spine (some staining, a tiny hole). Provenance : Collalti Bibliothek (bookplate dated 1771) -- F. Fraternali (book dealer's stamp). The Sphaera mundi is Sacrobosco's most popular astronomical treaties and one of the most frequently reprinted scientific books of the 15th century: over 30 editions are recorded between 1472 and 1501. In the present edition it is accompanied by J. Regiomantanus, Disputationes contra Cremonensia and G. Peurbach, Theoricae novae planetarum . The woodcuts first appeared in Johannes Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis's edition of 31 March 1488. HC*14113; BMC V, 438; IGI 5346; BSB-Ink I-507; CIBN J-273; Bod-inc J-184; Klebs 874.14; Goff J-409.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 89
Auktion:
Datum:
25.04.2012
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
25 April 2012, London, South Kensington
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