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Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195-1256) Sphera Volgare
Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195-1256) Sphera Volgare
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Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195-1256)

Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta. Venice: Bartolomeo Zanetti for Juan Ortega de Carrión, 1537.First Italian edition, quarto, A-O4, lacking final two leaves, often lacking: consisting of the errata and a volvelle woodcut; translation by Marco Mauro illustrated with cosmographically-themed woodcut title page border, large full-paged woodcut on verso of title showing the translator at work, his desk a globe, with another globe on a stand in the background, a ship at sea in the window, sun and moon in the sky, with tools of astronomy and navigation in the surrounding border; full-paged woodcut arms of Charles V on the second leaf, numerous text illustrations, full-paged arms of dedicatee, Juan Ortega de Carrión, on verso of last leaf; bound in 18th century brocade paper-covered boards, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.Harvard/Mortimer Italian 452; Sander 4441.Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.
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Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195-1256) Sphera Volgare

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