CALCAGNINI, Celio (1479-1541). Opera aliquot. Basel: H. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1544.
2° (334 x 221mm). Froben’s device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut diagrams, with the 2 blanks a4 and Ii6. (Lightly browned and spotted throughout.) Old-style modern vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: scored inscription on title and a few marginalia.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, published posthumously by Antonio Musa Brassavola. Calcagnini was the first Italian to affirm with formal arguments that the earth rotates tiled on its axis, to account for night and day. Adams C-177; Houzeau and Lancaster 2506; Riccardi I, 209.
CALCAGNINI, Celio (1479-1541). Opera aliquot. Basel: H. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1544.
2° (334 x 221mm). Froben’s device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut diagrams, with the 2 blanks a4 and Ii6. (Lightly browned and spotted throughout.) Old-style modern vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: scored inscription on title and a few marginalia.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, published posthumously by Antonio Musa Brassavola. Calcagnini was the first Italian to affirm with formal arguments that the earth rotates tiled on its axis, to account for night and day. Adams C-177; Houzeau and Lancaster 2506; Riccardi I, 209.
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