GIOVANNI GIOVIANO PONTANO (1429-1503)
Urania, sive de stellis libri quinque. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, 1505. 8° (160 x 100mm). Woodcut Aldine device on title and final leaf. (Occasional soiling and spotting.) Contemporary calf, blindstamped tooling, paper title and shelf mark label on spine (lacking ties, rubbed and bumped). Provenance: early annotations -- F. Manci? (ownership inscription on title) -- shelf mark on title -- Compagnia del Gesú, Rome (book label and stamp on title).
A RARE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Pontano's most original poem on constellations. No other copies are recorded at auction in recent years (ABPC/AE online). Renouard 63:7; Ahmanson-Murphy 109; not in Brunet.
GIOVANNI GIOVIANO PONTANO (1429-1503)
Urania, sive de stellis libri quinque. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, 1505. 8° (160 x 100mm). Woodcut Aldine device on title and final leaf. (Occasional soiling and spotting.) Contemporary calf, blindstamped tooling, paper title and shelf mark label on spine (lacking ties, rubbed and bumped). Provenance: early annotations -- F. Manci? (ownership inscription on title) -- shelf mark on title -- Compagnia del Gesú, Rome (book label and stamp on title).
A RARE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Pontano's most original poem on constellations. No other copies are recorded at auction in recent years (ABPC/AE online). Renouard 63:7; Ahmanson-Murphy 109; not in Brunet.
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