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Astronomicum cæsareum.

Title
Astronomicum cæsareum.
Author
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
Publication
[Ingolstadii, 1540]

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TextRestricted use *KB+++ 1540 (Apianus, P. Astronomicum csareum)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description
60 l. incl. illus., plates, diagrs.; 47 x 32 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Colophon: Factvm et actvm Ingolstadii in aedibvs nostris. Anno a Christo nato sesqvimillesimo qvadragesimo mense maio.
  • Signatures: A-F⁴; G⁵; H-N⁴; O⁷.
  • The colophon is printed in reverse from right to left.
  • Title within colored ornamental border. Title vignette colored; initials partly colored; marginal notes. Text in double columns.
  • Illustrations and plates, many with movable parts, are mostly colored.
  • Plates with movable parts on recto of [B₃], C, [Ciii], D, DIII, E, EII, [EIV], FII, FIII, [FIV], [GIV], [GV], KIII, [KIV], LI, LII, LIII, [LIV], MI, MIII, and on verso of GIII.
  • On verso of t.-p., the arms of the Emperor Charles V and of Ferdinand, king of Bohemia and Hungary.
  • On recto of sig. [OVII] the arm of Apianus: "Insignia Petri Apiani Sacri Palatii Co is."
  • Part 2 (sig. M₄-O₃b) contains: Meteoroscopion planum.--Observationes cometarvm quinque, and is followed by "Compositio Torqveti ... descriptio."
  • For full description see Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'œuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. no. 112.
Call Number
*KB+++ 1540 (Apianus, P. Astronomicum cæsareum)
LCCN
13033976 //rxx
OCLC
28791339
Author
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
Title
Astronomicum cæsareum.
Imprint
[Ingolstadii, 1540]
Local Note
Sig. [OVI] with "Insignia P. Apiani vtraque. Priora. Posteriora", is wanting; movable parts of diagram on sig. C Wanting.
Bound in pigskin, elaborately blind stamped, with borders on both covers incorporating the monogram HP; with initials, H.V.W., and date, 1575, stamped on front cover.
With bookplates of Georgius Kloss and Charles F. Cox.
Maitland Collection.
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*KB+++ 1540 (Apianus, P. Astronomicum cæsareum)
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