Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701
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Sale 2701 - Lot 345

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Stöffler [Stoeffler], Johannes (1452-1531)
Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii.

Oppenheim: Jacobus Köbel, 1512/13.

First edition, folio, edited by Georg Simler (1480-1536); the first German book on astrolabes; title page printed within ornate architectural woodcut compartment; with numerous contemporary annotations inside both boards and in the text; illustrated with the arms of Georg Simler, woodcut initials and large woodcut diagrams throughout, several with extension slips (some worming, other signs of use); bound in contemporary half German alum-tawed pigskin tooled in blind, brass catches present on front board, lacking clasps); back pastedown is printer's waste from an unidentified German-language text in black letter; Jesuit rubberstamp on title; 10 7/8 x 8 in.

Adams S-1886; Houzeau-Lancaster 3256; Stillwell Science 892; Wellcome 6099.

"Stöffler recognized that, in mapping, computation of the distance between two places whose latitude and longitude were known failed to take into account the convergence of the meridians." (Quoted from Stillwell.)

Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
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