Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CALVISIUS, SETHUS. Opus chronologicum . . . cui praemissa est, Isagoge chronologica . . . editio altera & auctior & correctior. [8], 1030, [99] pages, including half-title, and errata leaf at end. Folio, 323x198 mm, early binding of 1/2 blind-tooled pigskin with medieval liturgical manuscript vellum over boards; scattered foxing. Biographical note about the author on front flyleaf by J. S. Tschirschnitz of Poznan. Frankfurt am Main & Emden: Anton Hummius for Christian Gerlach and Simon Beckenstein, 1650

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First published in 1605, a system of world chronology based on the records of over 300 eclipses. Zinner 4804; Houzeau & Lancaster 12831.