Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701
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Sale 2701 - Lot 344

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Stöffler [Stoeffler], Johannes (1452-1531)
Calendarium Romanum Magnum, Caesareae Maiestati Dicatum.

Oppenheim: Impressum per Jacobum Ko[e]bel, 1518.

First edition, folio, title printed within four-piece woodcut compartment featuring heraldic shields; many woodcut illustrations, including a full-page woodcut of the anatomical man, cycles of the moon, 6-leaf section printed in two columns in red and black with geographical coordinates for dozens of European cities and a small woodcut city view at the bottom of each column; sections printed in red and black; the calendar follows, with one page for each month with the zodiacal sign in a woodcut rondelle at the fore edge (rondelles cropped) and a woodcut illustrating the common activities for the month printed at the foot of each page, calendars for 1518, 1537 and 1556 on the verso of each; the next eleven pages are taken up with illustrated tables of partial and total solar and lunar eclipses, printed in red and black, for the years from 1518 to 1573; forty-seven pages of tables printed in red and black of moveable feasts, solar and lunar cycles, and the positions of the constellations up to 1579; followed by four full-page black and red woodcuts of astronomical instruments; bound in full modern cloth; edges trimmed a bit closely, with occasional marginal loss; a good candidate for a more appropriate binding; an impressive printing accomplishment; 11 x 7 3/4 in.

Fairfax Murray German 403.

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