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Sacrobosco, Johannes de (circa 1195-1256) Sphaera Mundi.
Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 4 October 1490.
Quarto, a-f8, illustrated with numerous text woodcuts throughout, some printed in yellow, red, and black; full-page woodcut portraying Urania, Ptolemy, and Astronomia on a throne, woodcut printer's device printed in red on colophon leaf; old marginalia on title and in text washed almost completely away, margins trimmed a bit close, bound in full modern calf, spine tooled in gilt, housed in custom cloth-covered clamshell box, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
