Biblioteca Particular
Lot 14:
FRISIUS (Gemma)
ASTROLABO Catholico. Liber quo latissime patentis Instrumenti multiplex usus explicatur, & quiequid uspiam rerum Mathematicaru[m] tradi possit continetur. Antuerpiae: Joan. Steelsii, 1556.
†- ††8, A/Z8; [16], 183, [1] ff., 2ff. desdobráveis; 175 mm.
FIRST EDITION, posthumous, by the cartographer, mathematician and instrument builder Gemma Frisius, considered, with Ortelius and Mercator, one of the founders of the Flemish school of cartography. This work of his was published posthumously on the initiative of his son. Very rare.
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