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Architectural woodcut title border; a large woodcut of Urania & the author beneath a celestial sphere, repeated in the “Cosmographia” section; a large woodcut of a water-clock, repeated; 280 other woodcuts in the text; and numerous large initials & headpieces. 8 p.l., 207 (i.e. 209) leaves, one leaf of errata. Folio, most attractive early 18th-cent. mottled half-sheep & mottled boards (first two leaves a little discolored), spine gilt, pale brown & green morocco lettering pieces on spine. Paris: [G. Morrhe & J. Pierre], 1532.
First collected edition, and a magnificent large copy of this beautiful book, containing the first printings of many of Finé’s texts; this is his... More