PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Hoc in libro . . . insunt . . . Klaudiou Ptolemaiou . . . Tetrabiblos . . . tou autou Karpos. . . Claudii Ptolemaei . . . libri quatuor . . . Eiusdem . . . Centum [etc.] Greek text with Latin translations by Joachim Camerarius and Giovanni Giovano Pontano, respectively. [6], 59, [1]; [4], 84, [24] leaves, including blanks [pi]3 and a4. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 197x154 mm, modern vellum boards with leather lettering piece; occasional marginal foxing and minor dampstains, title and blank last page soiled, numerous small wormholes through the preliminaries and approximately the last 20 leaves generally not impairing legibility. Nuremberg: (Johann Petreius), 1535
first edition in the original greek of the Tetrabiblos or Quadripartitum, Ptolemy's systematic treatise on astrology, one of the most influential books on the subject from its composition in the 2nd century A. D. into the early modern era, and the Karpos or Centiloquium, a later collection of 100 astrological aphorisms spuriously attributed to him. The translations by Camerarius and Pontano first appeared in this edition; earlier Latin versions by Plato of Tivoli and John of Seville were published in 1484. Also included are 2 astrological tracts by Matthaeus Guarimbertus and Ludovicus de Rigiis. Cantamessa 3646; DSB IX, 198; Hoffmann III, 309; Houzeau & Lancaster 3636; Zinner 1605.
