MANILIUS Marcus. M. Manilii Astronomicon intrepretatione et notis ac figuris illustravit Michael Fayus... iussu Christianissimi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Accesserunt V. Ill. Petri Danielis Huetii animadversiones ad Manilium et Scaligeri Notas. Paris, F. Leonard, 1679. 4to 240 x 180 mm; Contemporary full leather binding, gilt ornaments on the spine; pp. [96], 448, 88, nice frontispiece by J. Edelinck, many engravings within the text with astronomical, zodiac, constellation subjects.
Good edition of this classic of ancient astronomy, in the form of didactic poem, interrupted at the V book, accompanied by an extensive apparatus and philological interpretation of Michel Du Fay and the comments of Pierre Daniel Huet to the text of Manilius and the notes of Scaliger [ placed at the end, with individual numbering]. The poem of Manilius, the Augustan age poet, who lived in the beginning of the Christian era, inspired by the model Lucretius, exposes the classic astronomical concepts digress especially in the field about the astrological influences of the constellations on human destinies.Sign of wear at the spine, some browning, good copy. Gardner, Bibl. Astrologica, n. 768: "The work contains some finely engraved plates in the text, and is well printed, as indeed all the Delphin Classics are".
MANILIUS Marcus. M. Manilii Astronomicon intrepretatione et notis ac figuris illustravit Michael Fayus... iussu Christianissimi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Accesserunt V. Ill. Petri Danielis Huetii animadversiones ad Manilium et Scaligeri Notas. Paris, F. Leonard, 1679. 4to 240 x 180 mm; Contemporary full leather binding, gilt ornaments on the spine; pp. [96], 448, 88, nice frontispiece by J. Edelinck, many engravings within the text with astronomical, zodiac, constellation subjects.
Good edition of this classic of ancient astronomy, in the form of didactic poem, interrupted at the V book, accompanied by an extensive apparatus and philological interpretation of Michel Du Fay and the comments of Pierre Daniel Huet to the text of Manilius and the notes of Scaliger [ placed at the end, with individual numbering]. The poem of Manilius, the Augustan age poet, who lived in the beginning of the Christian era, inspired by the model Lucretius, exposes the classic astronomical concepts digress especially in the field about the astrological influences of the constellations on human destinies.Sign of wear at the spine, some browning, good copy. Gardner, Bibl. Astrologica, n. 768: "The work contains some finely engraved plates in the text, and is well printed, as indeed all the Delphin Classics are".
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