SACROBOSCO, Joannes de Libellus (...) de anni ratione, seu ut vocatur vulgo, Computus Ecclesiasticus. Cum praefatione Philippi Melanchthonis. c. 1564Paris,[B. Prevost for] G. Cavellat,8vo, old marbled wr. (1st quire loosening), 50 ff. (marg....
Estimation :
250 / 350
Adjudication :
280 €
Description
soiling, bottom-edge dampstained, tear in f. 46). Good copy.
Very rare undated (re-)issue of the 1561 Cavellat ed. (Renouard 171) of the medieval standard treatise on the (astronomical) calculation of the year. Ill. with 7 astronomical woodcuts in text. The prefatory letter of Ph. Melanchthon to the Swiss Achilles Pirmin Gasser is dated August 1538 (Hartfelder 269). Woodcut mark of G. Richard on title. A few old reader’s notes and underlinings.
Very rare undated (re-)issue of the 1561 Cavellat ed. (Renouard 171) of the medieval standard treatise on the (astronomical) calculation of the year. Ill. with 7 astronomical woodcuts in text. The prefatory letter of Ph. Melanchthon to the Swiss Achilles Pirmin Gasser is dated August 1538 (Hartfelder 269). Woodcut mark of G. Richard on title. A few old reader’s notes and underlinings.
