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[ASTRONOMY] - BENEDICTUS, Joannes

De coelo et elementis liber, Joanne Bendicto Tiernaviense auctore. Ad illustrissimum ducem Annam de Gioiosa
Paris
F. Morel
1585
€500 - €700

4to, [2], 26 ff, Woodcut arms on verso of title. Full-page astronomical woodcut at end. Printed in italics. Very sm. wormtrack in blank margin. Mod. quarter pigskin, marbled paper on covers. Good copy

Very rare original ed. (2nd ed. Ferrara 1591) of a treatise on astronomy by the Hungarian scholar J. Benedictus (Sambucus), a native of Tierna (Orsova, Romania), i.a. tutor of Alfonso d'Este of Ferrara. Ref.: Lalande p.117; Renouard (Impr.) 1583:12:2:1; not in Adams; USTC (only 3 copies all in France)

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