HYGINUS, CAIUS JULIUS. C.64 BCE-17 ADE.Poeticon astronomicon, ad veterum exemplarium eorumque manuscriptorum fidem diligentissime recognitum, & ab innumeris, quibus scatebat, uitiis repurgatum. Cologne: Johann Soter, 1534. Folio (275 x 192 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page and colophon, 47 woodcut illustrations in text. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt titles on spine. Old ink notations on title page, scattered browning and spotting. Second Soter edition, published in the same year as the first, but with a notice to the reader on the final page of text, by Caspar Medebach. The woodcuts are by Anton Woensam depicting 40 constellations and 7 allegorical representations of planets. The text, attributed to to the prolific Roman author Hyginus, was first published in an unillustrated edition in Ferrara in 1475. VD16 H 6483.
HYGINUS, CAIUS JULIUS. C.64 BCE-17 ADE.Poeticon astronomicon, ad veterum exemplarium eorumque manuscriptorum fidem diligentissime recognitum, & ab innumeris, quibus scatebat, uitiis repurgatum. Cologne: Johann Soter, 1534. Folio (275 x 192 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page and colophon, 47 woodcut illustrations in text. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt titles on spine. Old ink notations on title page, scattered browning and spotting. Second Soter edition, published in the same year as the first, but with a notice to the reader on the final page of text, by Caspar Medebach. The woodcuts are by Anton Woensam depicting 40 constellations and 7 allegorical representations of planets. The text, attributed to to the prolific Roman author Hyginus, was first published in an unillustrated edition in Ferrara in 1475. VD16 H 6483.
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