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Apianus, Petrus (1495-1552) Instrumentum Sinuum.
Nuremberg: apud Johan. Petreium, 1541.
Second edition, folio, title page with large woodcut of the quadrant invented by the author dominating the page, text printed in red above; woodcut diagrams throughout the text; bound in full later limp parchment; signature d misbound between signatures f & g; l4 blank likely integral; 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Adams A-1293.
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
