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Perlach, Andreas (1490-1551) Ephemerides.
Vienna: Per Hieronymu[m] Vietorem, 1529.
Quarto, very rare Ephemerides, bound in full contemporary sheepskin over paper boards densely decorated with blind and tarnished silver leaf tooling with title and author's name tooled in a large typeface on front board; (lacking original alum-tawed ties, binding with minor patched repairs, very neatly done, rubbed); ex libris Joannes Ernestus, with his 17th century engraved book label pasted to foot of title page indicating his role as a protonotary apostolic under Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I; 8 1/4 x 6 in.
Perlach served as Archduke Ferdinand I's court astrologer, practiced medicine, and taught mathematics at the University of Vienna, his alma mater. He was born in Svecina which was part of the Hapsburg Empire at the time and is now within the boundaries of modern-day Slovenia.
Very rare at auction and at institutional collections worldwide, Worldcat records only a handful of locations.
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
