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BAROZZI, FRANCESCO. Cosmografia . . . la quale . . . introduce alla Grande Matematica Costruzione di Tolomeo e a tutta l'Astrologia. Woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. [8], 230, [16] leaves. 8vo, 173x114 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened, missing small portion of vellum; dark stains in outer margin of opening leaves, scattered foxing. Venice: Grazioso Perchacino, 1607
first edition in italian of Barozzi's 1585 Cosmographia, in which he sought to correct what he saw as errors in the Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco, the standard medieval textbook of astronomy. DSB I, 468; Houzeau & Lancaster 2676; Riccardi I, 85; Thorndike VI, 155.
