ROJAS SARMIENTO, Juan de (fl. 1540-1550). Commentariorum in Astrolabium quod Planisphaerium vocant, libri sex nunc primum in lucem editi. Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1550.
ROJAS SARMIENTO, Juan de (fl. 1540-1550). Commentariorum in Astrolabium quod Planisphaerium vocant, libri sex nunc primum in lucem editi. Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1550. 4 o (230 x 162 mm). 63 woodcuts. Contemporary French calf for Marcus Fugger, blind-panelled sides, open floral tool at the outermost angles and another at the inner angles in gilt, Marcus Fugger's device of a hand-held floral sprig surmounted with a bird gold-tooled in the center of both covers, blind-panelled sides, open floral tool at the outermost angles and another at the inner angles in gilt (rebacked preserving the manuscript longitudinal title on vellum strips mounted in compartments of the spine). Provenance : Marcus Fugger (1529-1597), the cousin of two other great book collectors, Ulrich and Johann Jakob Fugger, and the eldest son of the head of the great Augsburg banking family, Anton Fugger (binding device, ownership entry inside front cover, stamp of the Fugger family on title); Kenney Collection (booklabel); acquired from William H. Schab, 1968. FIRST EDITION of Rojas Sarmiento's description of two new types of astrolabe that he developed using an orthographic projection of the celestial sphere. Several of the figures and buildings were adapted from cuts in Dominique Jacquinot's L'usaige de l'astrolabe , 1545. Marcus Fugger, member and, for a time, chief executive, of the celebrated Augsburg international banking and trading house, was one of the outstanding German Renaissance book collectors, often called "The German Grolier," as he had about fifteen large inlaid bindings "à la Grecque" and fifty smaller bindings bound in Paris by Grolier's ateliers. Through the marriage of his grandson Marquard with a daughter of a Count of Öttingen his library became part of the already considerable library of that family. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copy has come on the market since 1984. Adams R-671; Mortimer French 462; Palau 276066. [ Bound with :] FINÉ, Oronce (1494-1555). De rectis in circuli quadrante subtensis (quos vocant sinus) Libri Duo . Paris: Regnalt and Claude Chaudière, 1550. 4 o . Diagrams and tables in text. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Finé's study of circle-squaring, first published in De mundi sphaera , 1542 (see lot 177). Adams F-472.
ROJAS SARMIENTO, Juan de (fl. 1540-1550). Commentariorum in Astrolabium quod Planisphaerium vocant, libri sex nunc primum in lucem editi. Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1550.
ROJAS SARMIENTO, Juan de (fl. 1540-1550). Commentariorum in Astrolabium quod Planisphaerium vocant, libri sex nunc primum in lucem editi. Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1550. 4 o (230 x 162 mm). 63 woodcuts. Contemporary French calf for Marcus Fugger, blind-panelled sides, open floral tool at the outermost angles and another at the inner angles in gilt, Marcus Fugger's device of a hand-held floral sprig surmounted with a bird gold-tooled in the center of both covers, blind-panelled sides, open floral tool at the outermost angles and another at the inner angles in gilt (rebacked preserving the manuscript longitudinal title on vellum strips mounted in compartments of the spine). Provenance : Marcus Fugger (1529-1597), the cousin of two other great book collectors, Ulrich and Johann Jakob Fugger, and the eldest son of the head of the great Augsburg banking family, Anton Fugger (binding device, ownership entry inside front cover, stamp of the Fugger family on title); Kenney Collection (booklabel); acquired from William H. Schab, 1968. FIRST EDITION of Rojas Sarmiento's description of two new types of astrolabe that he developed using an orthographic projection of the celestial sphere. Several of the figures and buildings were adapted from cuts in Dominique Jacquinot's L'usaige de l'astrolabe , 1545. Marcus Fugger, member and, for a time, chief executive, of the celebrated Augsburg international banking and trading house, was one of the outstanding German Renaissance book collectors, often called "The German Grolier," as he had about fifteen large inlaid bindings "à la Grecque" and fifty smaller bindings bound in Paris by Grolier's ateliers. Through the marriage of his grandson Marquard with a daughter of a Count of Öttingen his library became part of the already considerable library of that family. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copy has come on the market since 1984. Adams R-671; Mortimer French 462; Palau 276066. [ Bound with :] FINÉ, Oronce (1494-1555). De rectis in circuli quadrante subtensis (quos vocant sinus) Libri Duo . Paris: Regnalt and Claude Chaudière, 1550. 4 o . Diagrams and tables in text. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Finé's study of circle-squaring, first published in De mundi sphaera , 1542 (see lot 177). Adams F-472.
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