Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362
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Sale 2362 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 1,375
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MOLETI [or MOLETO], GIUSEPPE. Tabulae Gregorianae motuum octavae sphaerae ac luminarium ad usum calendarii ecclesiastici, & ad urbis Romae meridianum supputatae . . . Adjecti sunt Libri duo de corrigendo calendario, & de usu computi ecclesiastici. [8], 50; 88; 37, [1] leaves. 3 parts in volume. 4to, 270x207 mm, modern leather; light to moderate foxing, some leaves browned, small dampstain in lower margin of opening leaves, soiling and old stamp ('Ex Testam. RMI Oliveri') on title. Venice: Pietro Deuchino, 1580
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first edition of astronomical tables compiled at the request of the papal commission on calendar reform and named in honor of the Pope, printed together with 2 related technical tracts. Moleti's tables were apparently the earliest published in Italy to be based on the Copernican Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold. Gascoigne 337; Houzeau & Lancaster 12758; Riccardi II, 164; Thorndike VI, 57.