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APIANUS, PETRUS.
Astronomicum
Caesareum.
Complete color facsimile
with accompanying volume of explana-
tory text in German and English.
Together, 2 volumes. Folio, 447x305 mm,
original gilt-lettered pigskin, and 4to,
296x210 mm, original cloth-backed
boards; contents clean, volvelles loose on
K3r in facsimile; publisher’s board folding
case, slightly worn along edges.
Leipzig, 1967
[1,500/2,500]
NUMBER
181
OF
200
COLORED COPIES
,
from an edition of 750.
SUPERB FACSIMILE OF
THE
1540
ORIGINAL EDITION
of Apianus’s
most famous work, an elaborate treatise on
Ptolemaic astronomy, complete with 20 working
volvelles. “A spectacular achievement of
Renaissance printing, this volume allowed its
user to reproduce the motions of all the heavenly
bodies through combinations of elaborately deco-
rated rotating paper disks up to six layers deep
and arranged on nonconcentric axes”—BEA,
page 51-52. Ortroy 112 (original edition).
