Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ARGOLI, ANDREA. Tabulae primi mobilis. [12], 757, [1]; 995, [1] pages, including engraved title and portrait of the author. 2 volumes. 4to, 215x162 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine titles in ink, worn, Volume 2 book block loose in binding; contents browned with occasional marginal dampstaining. Signatures of Paolo Antonio Parenzi dated Rome 1710, partly scored or oxidized with resulting holes. Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1644

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Second edition of a 1610 collection of tables of the Primum Mobile, or outermost celestial sphere in Ptolemaic model, for determining astrological directions. Houzeau & Lancaster 12749; Riccardi I, 49.