Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
LEUPOLDUS, Duke of Austria. Compilatio . . . de astrorum scientia. Numerous text woodcuts of constellations, zodiac figures, allegorical depictions of planets, and astrological charts. [94] leaves. 4to, 191x138 mm, later binding of medieval manuscript vellum over boards; title and next leaf rehinged with soiling, stains, and partly repaired wormholes minimally affecting woodcuts, scattered cropped marginalia, contents otherwise relatively clean. Contemporary manuscript astronomical tables on verso of last leaf and following endleaf, with binding split in between. (Venice: Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro Ravani, 15 July 1520)

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Second edition of a work on astrology and astrological meteorology written in the 13th century and first printed in 1489. Sander 3948; Sarton II, 996.