Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701
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Sale 2701 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Fine, Oronce (1494-1555)
La Théorique des Cielz, Mouveme[n]s et Termes Practiques des Sept Planetes Nouvellement et tres Clerement Redigee en Langaige Fra[n]cois.

Paris: Simon du Bois pour Jean Pierre de Tours, 31 August 1528.

First edition of the first astronomical treatise in French, small folio; illustrated with 47 text diagrams, including two very finely executed large woodcuts of astronomical instruments by Fine, a beautiful armillary sphere and an elegant meteoroscope; text printed in a French batarde typeface; bound in full modern morocco with custom gilt title in the style of the printed one on the front board (binding rubbed and decased; contents washed & pressed); ex libris Adriana R. Salem with book label and Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, with their bookplate; early faded signature to title page; 11 1/4 x 8 in.

Mortimer French 224.

Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
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