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PEUCER, CASPAR. Elementa doctrinae de circulis coelestibus, et primo motu. Woodcut text diagrams throughout, including four with working volvelles on F4v, F6r, I2r, and L5r; 8 folding tables. [156] leaves. 8vo, 159x101 mm, contemporary Wittenberg binding of blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards by Mathias Juncker the Elder, with his historiated allegorical roll signed M I around center panel of vertically arranged floral stamps on covers, front cover additionally stamped I • F • S at top and dated 1553 at bottom, brass catches and clasps; minor toning or foxing in margins through most of volume, extensive contemporary marginalia, light soiling and few stains on title, blank upper margin excised, small piece missing from blank lower margin of N5, clean tear in second table between Q6 and Q7. Wittenberg: Officina Cratoniana, 1551
first edition of a popular textbook of geocentric spherical astronomy, citing Copernicus at the end of a chronological list of great astronomers or astrologers going back to Adam. Zinner 2204; Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel I, 209-10.excellent copy, complete with the volvelles and tables, in a well-preserved contemporary binding.
bound with: SACROBOSCO, JOHANNES. Libellus de sphaera. Accessit eiusdem autoris Computus ecclesiasticus. Preface by Philipp Melanchthon. Woodcut text diagrams throughout, lacking the volvelles. [135] (of [136]) leaves, including the penultimate blank; lacks final blank. (Wittenberg: Johann Crato, 11 May 1553.) Zinner 2074.
