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HYGINUS, Gaius Julius

Higinus de stellis [Poeticon Astronomicon]
Pavia
Giacomo Pocatela for the Heirs of Ottaviano Scoto & Co.
1513, 12 January
€1.800 - €3.000

4to: [51 (of 52)] ff. Profusely illustrated with 2 repeated full-page woodcuts (armillary sphere) and 47 half-page woodcuts (depicting constellations, signs of the Zodiac, and allegories of the 7 planets). Printed in gothic type. (missing final f., probably blank; top margin and upper half of fore-edge margin repaired and strengthened, with occasional losses due to dampstaining). Mod. overl. vellum ('Julius Ligator 1976'), flat spine with blind-stamped title. Good copy

Handsomely illustrated work on astronomy, which mingles science and myth. Very rare early Pavia edition. Among the liminary verse a Latin poem by a 'Io. Andreas de Flandria' (G3r). Ref. Edit16 23025. - Sander 3477 - Not in Adams. Prov. Annotations in French. Old scribbling on G3v. Old names on title, i.a. 'Jean Guyionius' (16th c.)