Astronomicum Caesareum.
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Author / Creator: | Apian, Peter, 1495-1552, author. |
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Imprint: | [Ingolstadt] : [Peter Apian], [May 1540] |
Description: | [118] pages : illustrations (woodcuts, chiefly color), hand colored coats of arms (woodcuts) ; 47 cm (folio) |
Language: | Latin |
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Format: | Print Book |
Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy with original silk threads to the volvelles with small pearls or colored glass[?] beads at the ends; volvelle on page [17] lacking moving parts, silk thread detached and laid in; silk thread on pages [23], [27], and [31] detached and laid in; cancel slip pasted over lines 38-39, column 2 page [75]; some initials hand colored by former owner[?]. University of Chicago Library's copy from the library of Joseph Halle Schaffner, Friend of the University. Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes. |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/146807 |
Item Description: | Woodcut illustrations by Michael Ostendorfer. Consult Library of Congress. Vision of a collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress, page 392. Woodcut initials attributed to Hans Brosamer. Includes 22 volvelles. Colophon [printed in reverse]: Factum et actum Ingolstadij in aedibus nostris, anno a Christo nato sesqimillesimo quadragesimo mense Maio. Signatures: A-F⁴ G⁶(-G2) H-N⁴ O⁶; [ Title within decorative woodcut border (hand colored); title vignette (hand colored); head-pieces (hand colored); initials. Printed in double columns. Last page blank. For full description see Gingerich, Apianus' Astronomicum Caesareum and its Leipzig facsimile in Journal of the history of astronomy, ii (1971), 168-177. Includes index. Includes errata (page [8]). "Meteorscopion planium Apiani"--Pages [97]-[117]. |
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Physical Description: | [118] pages : illustrations (woodcuts, chiefly color), hand colored coats of arms (woodcuts) ; 47 cm (folio) |