First edition, quarto, xylographic title printed in red and black; divisional titles; rather extensive contemporary marginalia in some sections, illegible inscription in seemingly the same hand inside front board, without the three folding typographical tables found in some copies; bound in contemporary German wooden boards and half alum-tawed pigskin roll-tooled in blind, with brass catches and clasps (no front fly leaf); ex libris Svend Fridolf Jacobsen, with bookplate from 1943; 8 x 6 in.
Reinhold taught math at Wittenberg. He embraced and popularized the teachings of Copernicus right from the start. "Reinhold not only wrote a commentary on Copernicus' work, which was highly desirable at the time, but also calculated new astronomical tables based on it, which he published in honor of a generous patron, Duke Albert of Prussia, under the title Tabulae prutenicae, and which were considered the best until the Rudolphine tables appeared, and are still of interest to our time because they were used as the basis for the Gregorian calendar reform." (Quoted from Wolf.)
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
