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PICCOLOMINI, ALESSANDRO. De la Sfera del Mondo. Di nuovo da ripolita, accresciuta & fino a Sei Libri. 47 full-page woodcut star maps. [12], 252; 48 pages; 25-93, [3] leaves. 3 parts in one volumes. 4to, 210x155 mm, contemporary limp vellum; scattered minor foxing and stains, 2 old stamp on title, one oxidized with resulting hole, early 19th-century owner's inscription on title and last page, portion of front free endpaper torn off. Venice: Giovanni Varisco e compagni, 1566
Eighth edition of a 1540 treatise on cosmography including as an appendixthe first printed star atlas, "containing maps of the stars as opposed to simple pictures of constellations, and introducing the practice of identifying stars by letter, a method later adopted and expanded by Bayer"--Norman 1696 (1559 edition). This edition not in Riccardi.
