PTOLÉMÉE, Claude – JACOB, Cyriacus. - Lot 222

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PTOLÉMÉE, Claude – JACOB, Cyriacus. - Lot 222
PTOLÉMÉE, Claude – JACOB, Cyriacus. Astronomia. Teutsch Astronomei. Von Art/ eygen-schafften/ vnd wirckung. 1 vol. in-4. [Getruckt zů Franckforth am Meyn: bei Cyriaco Jacob zum Barth, 1545]. Expectant blue boards, title label on spine. [72] ff. German treatise on astronomy which includes a small wind-head map showing the southern continent named Australia. The wind-head map appears on the verso of page 28, opposite a half-page engraved armillary sphere. Gothic edition illustrated with 98 woodcuts in medallions including astrological figures, constellations, astrological tables, planetary diagrams, etc. some enhanced in color. Incomplete work which ends on folio Nii. Two leaves added in facsimile bearing the dates 1564 and 1545. Restorations in the margins, light in the text, with some letters missing, more important on leaf Hii. Marginal staining from folio Riiii onwards. Rubbing and stains to the binding.
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