Cl. Ptolomaei Phelvdiensis Alexandrini philosophi et mathematici excellentissimi Phænomena, stellarum MXXII fixarum ad hanc ætatem reducta, atque seorsum in studiosorum gratiam / Nunc primum edita, interprete Georgio Trapezuntio. Adiecta est isagoge Ioannis Nouiomagi ad stellarum inerrantium longitudines ac latitudines, cui etiam accessere Imagines sphæræ barbaricæ duodequinquaginta Alberti Dvreri.

  • Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Date:
1537
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About this work

Also known as

Almagest. Book 7-8. Latin
Phaenomena, Stellarum MXXII fixarum ...

Publication/Creation

Excusum Coloniæ Agrippinæ : [publisher not identified], 1537.

Physical description

26 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, diagrams ; (folio)

Notes

Woodcut title vignette (sphere); initials; woodcut illustrations
Comprises Liber VII and VIII of the Almagest
"Without the plates of Albert Durer, and it seems doubtful whether they were ever published with this edition". (Brit. Mus. Cat.)
Signatures: A⁴ B-D⁶ E⁴
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5 - 10 December 1898. Bound with: Stoeffler, J. In Procli Diadochi ... Sphaeram mundi commentarius. 1534. Binding: 16th century blind stamped pigskin over oak boards; evidence of clasps on front and back covers. Signatures of Wolfgang Gabelchover and Heinrich August Krippendorf on title page of first work. Book label of Georg Kloss M.D. inside front cover. Book label of William Morris Kelmscott House. With catalogue card by Sydney Cockerell.

References note

BM vol. 196, col. 331 (718.i.5)

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