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Lot 83
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170). Almagestum. Opus omnes celorum motus continens. Venice: Petrus Lichtenstein, 10 January 1515.
Closed13 July 2016
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GBP 20,000
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170). Almagestum. Opus omnes celorum motus continens. Venice: Petrus Lichtenstein, 10 January 1515.
2° (300 x 211mm). Numerous woodcut diagrams in the margins, large printer’s device at end in red and black, ornamental initials. (First gathering starting to detach, hinges weak, light marginal spotting or soiling.) Later boards (new endpapers), modern half-morocco case. Provenance: illegible stamp (on margin of title and below printer’s device).
THE FIRST COMPLETE LATIN EDITION, translated from the Arabic in 1175 by Gerard of Cremona, of Ptolemy's most important astronomical and mathematical work. ‘Ptolemy's chief work in astronomy, and the book on which his later reputation mainly rests... The 'Almagest' is a masterpiece of clarity and method, superior to any ancient scientific textbook and with few peers from any period’ (DSB). Written in the second century A.D., it was ‘almost immediately adopted as the standard astronomical textbook of classical antiquity… The Almagest remained the dominant influence in theoretical astronomy until the close of the sixteenth century’ (Norman 1760). Adams P-2213; Essling 895; Houzeau-Lancaster 865; Sander 5971.
2° (300 x 211mm). Numerous woodcut diagrams in the margins, large printer’s device at end in red and black, ornamental initials. (First gathering starting to detach, hinges weak, light marginal spotting or soiling.) Later boards (new endpapers), modern half-morocco case. Provenance: illegible stamp (on margin of title and below printer’s device).
THE FIRST COMPLETE LATIN EDITION, translated from the Arabic in 1175 by Gerard of Cremona, of Ptolemy's most important astronomical and mathematical work. ‘Ptolemy's chief work in astronomy, and the book on which his later reputation mainly rests... The 'Almagest' is a masterpiece of clarity and method, superior to any ancient scientific textbook and with few peers from any period’ (DSB). Written in the second century A.D., it was ‘almost immediately adopted as the standard astronomical textbook of classical antiquity… The Almagest remained the dominant influence in theoretical astronomy until the close of the sixteenth century’ (Norman 1760). Adams P-2213; Essling 895; Houzeau-Lancaster 865; Sander 5971.
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-c.170). Almagestum. Opus omnes celorum motus continens. Venice: Petrus Lichtenstein, 10 January 1515.
2° (300 x 211mm). Numerous woodcut diagrams in the margins, large printer’s device at end in red and black, ornamental initials. (First gathering starting to detach, hinges weak, light marginal spotting or soiling.) Later boards (new endpapers), modern half-morocco case. Provenance: illegible stamp (on margin of title and below printer’s device).
THE FIRST COMPLETE LATIN EDITION, translated from the Arabic in 1175 by Gerard of Cremona, of Ptolemy's most important astronomical and mathematical work. ‘Ptolemy's chief work in astronomy, and the book on which his later reputation mainly rests... The 'Almagest' is a masterpiece of clarity and method, superior to any ancient scientific textbook and with few peers from any period’ (DSB). Written in the second century A.D., it was ‘almost immediately adopted as the standard astronomical textbook of classical antiquity… The Almagest remained the dominant influence in theoretical astronomy until the close of the sixteenth century’ (Norman 1760). Adams P-2213; Essling 895; Houzeau-Lancaster 865; Sander 5971.
2° (300 x 211mm). Numerous woodcut diagrams in the margins, large printer’s device at end in red and black, ornamental initials. (First gathering starting to detach, hinges weak, light marginal spotting or soiling.) Later boards (new endpapers), modern half-morocco case. Provenance: illegible stamp (on margin of title and below printer’s device).
THE FIRST COMPLETE LATIN EDITION, translated from the Arabic in 1175 by Gerard of Cremona, of Ptolemy's most important astronomical and mathematical work. ‘Ptolemy's chief work in astronomy, and the book on which his later reputation mainly rests... The 'Almagest' is a masterpiece of clarity and method, superior to any ancient scientific textbook and with few peers from any period’ (DSB). Written in the second century A.D., it was ‘almost immediately adopted as the standard astronomical textbook of classical antiquity… The Almagest remained the dominant influence in theoretical astronomy until the close of the sixteenth century’ (Norman 1760). Adams P-2213; Essling 895; Houzeau-Lancaster 865; Sander 5971.
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