INTERIANO, Paolo (16th-century). Ristretto della Sphera del medesimo. Lucca: Vincenzo Busdraghi, 1551.
4° (197 x 151mm). Large woodcut device on title, woodcut initials (light spotting and faint soiling.) Later boards (new endpapers, spine rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest books to study methods for measuring longitude. The work is usually found bound after Inventione del corso della longitudine printed the same year. Riccardi I 649 (‘raro libretto stupendamente stampato’); Graesse III 426.
INTERIANO, Paolo (16th-century). Ristretto della Sphera del medesimo. Lucca: Vincenzo Busdraghi, 1551.
4° (197 x 151mm). Large woodcut device on title, woodcut initials (light spotting and faint soiling.) Later boards (new endpapers, spine rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest books to study methods for measuring longitude. The work is usually found bound after Inventione del corso della longitudine printed the same year. Riccardi I 649 (‘raro libretto stupendamente stampato’); Graesse III 426.
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