Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,024
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CLAVIUS, CHRISTOPH, S.J. In Sphaeram Joannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius. Nunc tertio [sic] ab ipso auctore recognitus, et plerisque in locis locupletatus. Woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. [30], 483, [1] pages. 8vo, 18th-century vellum boards; stains and soiling on title, marginal dampstaining toward end, front free endpaper lacking. 18th-century stamp ("Bibliothecae Montis Perusiae") on title and elsewhere in text. Venice: Bernardo Basa, 1596

Additional Details

Fifth edition of Clavius's influential textbook of Ptolemaic astronomy, originally published in 1570, containing an early critique of Copernican heliocentrism. DSB III, 311; Houzeau & Lancaster 2678.