Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Münster, Sebastian (1489-1552)
Compositio Horologiorum in Plano, Muro, Truncis, Anulo, Concavo, Cylindro, & Varijs Quadrantibus.

Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1531.

First edition, quarto, A-Z4, Aa-Cc4; illustrated with large woodcut illustration of sundials to title and more than fifty text woodcuts, some full-page, woodcut printer's device and colophon on last leaf, lacking the folding plate; Münster's name inked out on title and in prefatory material because his works were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Catholic church; bound in modern half parchment and buckram boards, very neatly done, aeg, 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.

Adams M-1916; Brunet III, 1944; Burmeister, Sebastian Münster 49; Houzeau and Lancaster 11349; Zinner 1448.