Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco

28. hYGINuS, Caius Julius. poetica
Astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and
J.L. Santritter). Summa sphericum secundum
hyginij descriptionem. Venice, Thomas de
Blavis, 1488, € 12.000
4to, 56 leaves, woodcut of the astronomical sphere and
47 beautiful illustrations of stars, planets and zodiac
signs. Modern half-morocco binding. The woodcuts
derive from medieval sources, and depict figures in medieval
European costume. These figures were reprinted, and
copied in many incunable editions, and were the sources
for the engraved images of J.de Ghein and Johannes Bayer.
Hyginus was an estimate astronomer active in the 1 st century
b.C. BMC, V, 318. Essling 287. Sander 3474. [9021]
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