1542 Almanach Novum Pietro Pitati of Verona ASTROLOGY ASTRONOMY ANTIQUE Giunta

Almanach Novum

by Pietro Pitati of Verona (Petri Pitati Veronensis Mathematici),  c. 1490–1567), an Italian mathematician and astronomer.


Venice: apud haeredes Lucae Antonii Juntae (heirs of Lucantonio Giunta); 1542


An astronomical and astrological almanac extending and supplementing the ephemerides of Johannes Stöffler (Ioannis Stoeffleri Ephemeridas),
covering up to the year 1556 (M.D.LVI),
alongside treatises on celestial disciplines, electional astrology, yearly revolutions,
weather prediction (mutatione aeris), and hourly tables for the sixth climate.

Title page with printer's device features the classic Giunta family device (a lily/florets emblem with initials) in the center.

Full leather binding, spine with raised bands, decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers

Some wear of binding, faded marginal dampstains, very good otherwise
 
With Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.

 Size 6 3/4 by 8 1/4"

Text in Latin
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