Sacrobosco, J. de

Sphera mundi cum tribus, commentis nuper editis

      Venice, Simon Papiens (Bevilaqua), 1499 (Hain 14125; BMC V, 524; Goff J 419). Folio, half calf & wooden boards. 150nn leaves. Full page printer device in verso of a2, second on verso M1. Text richly illustrated with woodcuts & surrounded by commentaries. Last three blank pages with contemporary, manuscript tables & commentaries. *Two books in one volume: Sacrobosco, Sphera Mundi, 'the fundamental astronomy of the Middle Ages' and Peuerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum, 'an elementary but thorough textbook on planetary theory describing the solid sphere representations of Ptolomeic planetary models'.#[510]