PONTANUS (Johanness Jovianus)

Opera. Vrania, siue de Stellis libri quinqu. Meteororum liber unus. De Hortis hesperidum libri duo. Lepidna sive postorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendecasyllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim,

      Aldus, Venice, 1513 - title a little browned, slight staining on 2 pp. marginal worming not affecting the text of 37 pp.signatures a-g ,h-i ,k-u, x-z ,aa-ii, 255 ll , 8vo, pictorial brown morocco signed binding by Morley of Oxford, with a half clothed woman on the front board surrounded by stars titled Astrologia, and a naked woman showing herself to her richly dressing gowned lover titled Amor, the spine decorated in compartments with hearts and stars titled Pontani Carmina, and Aldus 1513, with some slight fading, gilt dentelles, A revised and enlarged edition of the 1505 edition. A note in ink on the front free endpaper states sums the contents up "Here is Astrology and an Episode of Love. C.S. Stewart. London, May 1919".