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SACROBOSCO, Joannes de (1190-c.1250). Sphaera mundi. Venice: Joannes Baptista Sessa, 3 December 1501.
4º (205 x 141mm). Title in gothic letter above woodcut of Ptolemy enthroned between Astronomia and Urania, 87 woodcuts in text, woodcut initials, Sessa device on F7v. With final blank. (Title woodcut with almost invisible crease and small area of abrasion, bottom margin of A2-3 a touch soiled.) Old vellum (recased with new endpapers, covers bowed, also lightly soiled and stained).
A page-for-page reprint of the Venice edition by Bonetto Locatelli for Ottaviano Scoto, 1490, from which the woodblocks are copied. The block used by Scoto originated in the 1488 Venice edition by Joannes Lucilius Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis. Whereas Scoto placed the woodcut of Ptolemy on the title verso, Sessa moved it to the title-page. Two other works are printed with Sacrobosco, the Disputationes contra cremonensia in planetarum theoricas deliramenta of Joannes Regiomantus, and Georg von Peurbach’s Theoricae novae planetarum. These three texts were first combined in Ratdolt’s Venice editions of 1482 and 1485. Essling 265; Houzeau and Lancaster 1641; Mortimer/Harvard Italian Books 451; Sander 6669; Smith, Rara arithmetica 35; not in BL/STC.
4º (205 x 141mm). Title in gothic letter above woodcut of Ptolemy enthroned between Astronomia and Urania, 87 woodcuts in text, woodcut initials, Sessa device on F7v. With final blank. (Title woodcut with almost invisible crease and small area of abrasion, bottom margin of A2-3 a touch soiled.) Old vellum (recased with new endpapers, covers bowed, also lightly soiled and stained).
A page-for-page reprint of the Venice edition by Bonetto Locatelli for Ottaviano Scoto, 1490, from which the woodblocks are copied. The block used by Scoto originated in the 1488 Venice edition by Joannes Lucilius Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis. Whereas Scoto placed the woodcut of Ptolemy on the title verso, Sessa moved it to the title-page. Two other works are printed with Sacrobosco, the Disputationes contra cremonensia in planetarum theoricas deliramenta of Joannes Regiomantus, and Georg von Peurbach’s Theoricae novae planetarum. These three texts were first combined in Ratdolt’s Venice editions of 1482 and 1485. Essling 265; Houzeau and Lancaster 1641; Mortimer/Harvard Italian Books 451; Sander 6669; Smith, Rara arithmetica 35; not in BL/STC.
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