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Hyginus, Gaius Julius (c. 64 BCE-17 CE) Poeticon Astronomicon.
Cologne: Johann Soter, 1534.
Second Soter edition (published in the same year as the first), illustrated with 47 woodcut illustrations of constellations and other astrological subjects, including personifications of the planets in classical style; woodcut printer's device to title page and colophon; bound in later half morocco by Aston, with handwritten note inside front board; ex libris English historian Gilbert R. Redgrave (1844-1941) with his bookplate, signature and a long, 24-line note in his hand on front fly leaf; 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
