IMPORTANT: Accept cookies to place a bid!
Our website requires cookies for the bidding form to work. Without cookies, your cart will remain empty, and you won’t be able to place a bid. Click ‘Accept’ to enable bidding and ensure the website functions optimally. We ask for your consent to use cookies.

I agree to the use of cookies. I don't agree to the use of cookies..
back to overview

HEMMINGA, Sextus ab

Astrologiae, ratione et experientia refutatae liber
Antverpiae
ex off. Chr. Plantini
1583
€900 - €1.400

4to, [12], 303 pp, printer’s woodcut device on title, woodcut initial and numerous woodcut diagrams of constellations (horoscopes). Age-toned. Modern binding in 3/4 calf, marbled boards

"A VERY RARE FIRST EDITION printed by Plantin in Antwerp and containing astronomical studies and diagram constellations. The author was a Frisian astrologer, born in 1533. Ref. BT 1405 ; Voet III, 1307: 'Horoscopes of 30 personalities of 16th c. Europe, including the author, his brother and some scholars of the Netherlands. In his work the author attacks the astrology and its practioners, showing with practical examples the errors of their theories'"