Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. De praedictionibus astronomicis, cui titulum fecerunt Quadripartitu[m] . . . libri IIII. Latin translation by Philipp Melanchthon followed by the Greek original text. 269, [3]; [16], 229, [3] pages, including the 2 blanks. 8vo, 160x93 mm, later 18th-century tan calf gilt, spine scuffed, chipped at bottom, cover corners worn through; contents toned, dampstain in upper margin of opening leaves, early underscoring and cropped marginalia through much of the Greek text. 19th-century bookplate of Geo. Chas. Buchanan; another bookplate removed. Basel: Joannes Oporinus, (August 1553)

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first melanchthon edition of Ptolemy's 4-part manual of astrology. "Book I explains the technical concepts of astrology, book II deals with the influences on the earth in general ('astrological geography' and weather prediction), and books III and IV with influences on human life"--DSB XI, 198. Hoffmann III, 309; Sarton I, 277.