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ZIEGLER, JACOB; et al. Sphaerae atque astrorum coelestium ratio, natura, & motus. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide; 2 leaves of letterpress tables between pages 72 and 73; full-page woodcut diagram on page [92]. [16], 294, [2] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 203x136 mm, contemporary calf over wooden boards with blind-tooled panel design on covers, portions missing from top of spine, recased, endpapers renewed; soiling and early inscription on title, restoration in lower inner corner of [alpha]1.4 slightly affecting title border, marginal dampstaining toward end. [Basel]: (Johann Walder), 1536
first edition of a collection of astronomical texts comprising Ziegler, De solidae sphaerae constructione and De canonica per sphaeram operatione; Proclus, Sphaera, in Greek and Latin with scholia by Ziegler; Berosus, Hemicyclium, in Latin translation by Ziegler; Aratus, Phaenomena, in Greek with commentary by Theon of Alexandria; Ptolemaeus, Planisphaerium, in Latin; and Jordanus, Planisphaerium. Zinner 1653.
