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[Astronomy] - FINE, Oronce - Spherae mundi, s

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[Astronomy] - FINE, Oronce - Spherae mundi, s
[Astronomy] - FINE, Oronce - Spherae mundi, sive cosmographica quinque libris recens auctis & emendatis absoluta: in qua tum prima astronomiae pars, tum geographiae, ac hydrographiae rudimenta petractantur. Paris, Michel Vascosan, 1551, 4to, mod. vellum, flat spine, [6]-60 ff. (somewhat browning, blank bottom piece of title cut out and underlaid). Very good copy. Cfr ill. € 650/800 Important Renaissance treatise on astronomy, cosmography and mathematics by the French scholar Oronce Finé (1494-1555), dedicated to Edward VI of England. Numerous woodcut ill. and diagrams. Contemp. reader's marks. Ref. Adams F-469. STCFrench (BL London) p. 166. BN Paris (1). Grassi, Union cat. European astron. observatories p. 255 (2). Not in Mortimer (Harvard). Not in Machiels.
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