Sacro Bosco, Johannes de | Two illustrated works on astronomy
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Sacro Bosco, Johannes de
Sphaera mundi. Add: Georgius Purbachius: Theoricae novae planetarum. Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 4 October 1490
4to (210 x 153 mm). Roman letter, 48 lines. Collation: a–f8: 46 (of 48) leaves. Full-page woodcut of Astronomia enthroned with Urania and Ptolemy, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, 7 partially printed (or stenciled) in red, green, and yellow, woodcut printer's device printed in red on f8r; a2 extended; a1 and a8 supplied in facsimile, some soiling, chiefly marginal, a number of fore-edge corners worn or repaired. Later vellum. Half blue morocco folding-case.
Arguably the most influential astronomical text ever published, Joannes de Sacro Bosco’s Sphaera mundi was originally composed c. 1220. Exploring the movement and shape of the planets, Sacro Bosco’s discipline-defining work was central to university curricula from the mid-thirteenth to seventeenth centuries.
REFERENCES
BMC V 438 (IA 22845); Goff J409; GW M14646; Houzeau & Lancaster 1641; ISTC ih00561000
[With:] Sacro Bosco, Johannes de
Sphera volgare novamente tradotta con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia, arte navicatoria, et stereometria, proportioni, et quantita delli elementi, di stanze, grandeze, et mouimenti di tutti li corpi celesti. Venice: Bartholomeo Zanetti for Giovan Orthega di Carion, at Florence, 1537
4to (191 x 146 mm). Collation: A–O4: 56 leaves (lacking, as usual, terminal quire [I]2, with errata and woodcut volvelle). First page with full-page woodcut arms of Charles V, title within woodcut border of signs of the zodiac (partly and artlessly colored), woodcut allegorical portrait of Mauro of Florence, the translator, incorporating a globe depicting America on verso of title-page, approximately 90 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text including another globe with America designated (H3r), woodcut arms of Orthega di Carion on final page; scattered soiling throughout. Modern morocco, early red edges.
REFERENCES
Adams H738; Alden & Landis 537/17; Church 75; Edit16 38450; Mortimer, Italian 452; Sabin 32677
PROVENANCE
Ted Bentinnen (Sotheby’s New York, lot 248, 9 December 2024)
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