1558 ASTROLOGY ASTRONOMY Ephemerides ANTIQUE vellum BORGHESE LIBRARY PROVENANCE

Giovanni Battista Carello of Piacenza (Io. Baptista Carelli Placentini)


Ephemerides Io. Baptistae Carelli Placentini ad annos XIX

(19-year ephemerides calculated for the meridian of Venice)


Venice (Venetiis) : Vincenzo Valgrisi (apud Vincentium Valgrisium) and the heirs of Baldassarre Costantini (& haeredes Baldassaris Constantini) ; 1558 (M D LVIII).


Astronomical ephemerides for a 19-year span (1558–1577), calculated meticulously for the meridian of Venice (Meridiano inclitae vrbis Venetiarum diligentissime supputatae),
complete with astrological canons and an introductory treatise (Isagogico tractatu astrologiae).

[4], 86, [266] lvs

some woodcut diagrams and illustrations


Title page with woodcut device features the iconic printer's mark of Vincenzo Valgrisi

( staff or rod entwined with serpents (caduceus/Staff of Aesculapius motif) flanked by the initials VIN - CENT. )


Original vellum binding with manuscript title to the spine, some toning,  lacks ties and endpapers

Binding is firmly attached

With Ex librises of Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.

and

Prince Marco Antonio Borghese

(The Borghese library was founded by Pope Paul V (1605-1621) and finally sold at auction in Rome in 1892-1893)

Size 7 by 9 1/4"

Text in Latin
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The Ephemerides used by the 18 years old Tycho Brahe when he was first studying astronomy at Leipzig, where his uncle sent him to study law in 1562-1565

Based on the Alfonsine Tables and calculated for the meridian of Venice , this edition has an introduction and a treatise on dividing the houses.
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