Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 16,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
SCHÖNER, JOHANN. De judiciis nativitatum libri tres. Preface by Philipp Melanchthon. Astrological diagrams in text. [8], 152 leaves. Folio, 308x202 mm, contemporary blind-tooled sheep over pasteboard, leather over top sewing support damaged, spine ends restored, cover corners worn through, lacking ties and rear free endpaper; occasional light browning, ink stains on fore edges, minor worming through pastedowns. Early monastic ownership inscription (Admont, Styria?) and indistinct 19th-century institutional stamp on title. Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber, 1545

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first edition of an astrological treatise noteworthy for containing an early favorable mention of Copernicus's De revolutionibus. Thorndike V, 367.