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MANILIUS, MARCUS. Astronomicon libri quinque. Edited with commentary by Joseph Scaliger. [12], 136, [8]; 292, [12] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 169x111 mm, late 19th-century 1/4 morocco gilt; contents toned with scattered foxing, leaf after title restored in blank upper margin. Stamps of Harvard University Library on title and elsewhere; bookplate of Meadville Theological School (Harvard Divinity School gift). Paris: Mamert Patisson, 1579
"first edition of Scaliger's text and important commentary on the Astronomica of Manilius, the earliest extant treatise on astrology. Scaliger's edition was a forerunner to his greatest work, the De Emendatione Temporum . . . which was to revolutionize ancient chronology"--Schreiber 252.
