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SACROBOSCO, Johannes de. Sphera volgare novamente tradotta con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia, arte navigatoria, et stereometria, proportioni. Translated from Latin into Italian by Marco Mauro. Venice: Bartholomeo Zanetti for Giovan Orthega di Carion, 1537.
Small 4o (204 x 146 mm). Collation: A-O4 (without the 2 final additional unsigned leaves often lacking, containing the errata and a volvelle part). Full-page woodcut arms of Charles V, woodcut title border of the signs of the zodiac, woodcut allegorical portrait of Mauro on verso of title (lower right corner of title torn away affecting border), Orthega's woodcut arms at end, approximately 90 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. (Some pale marginal browning and staining.) Contemporary limp vellum (some light wear). Provenance: early ink marginalia with two manuscript diagrams on M1 and N1.
Mauro's Italian translation dedicated to Dino Compagni and the Spanish mathematian Juan Orthega de Carion. The fine woodcut illustrations of diagrams and allegorical borders, include TWO DEPICTIONS OF THE AMERICAS: in the allegorical portrait of Mauro, he rests his book on a globe, showing South America (called "Ametrica") and the globe on H3r shows both North and South America, this time labeled "America." Adams H-738; Alden & Landis 537/17; Brunet V:22; Church 75; Harrisse 219; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 452; Riccardi pt.1, vol.2 137-38; Sabin 32677; Sander 4441.
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Mauro's Italian translation dedicated to Dino Compagni and the Spanish mathematian Juan Orthega de Carion. The fine woodcut illustrations of diagrams and allegorical borders, include TWO DEPICTIONS OF THE AMERICAS: in the allegorical portrait of Mauro, he rests his book on a globe, showing South America (called "Ametrica") and the globe on H3r shows both North and South America, this time labeled "America." Adams H-738; Alden & Landis 537/17; Brunet V:22; Church 75; Harrisse 219; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 452; Riccardi pt.1, vol.2 137-38; Sabin 32677; Sander 4441.