1588 ASTRONOMY & ASTROLOGY Almanac o Vero Efemeridi de Pianeti antique RARE

Marsilio Cagnati (1543-1612)

Almanac o Vero Efemeridi de Pianeti dal 1588. sino al 1606.

Rome: Nelle casa del Popolo Romano, appresso Georgio Ferrari, 1588.


First edition

woodcut printer's device to title page;
numerous woodcut diagrams

bound in original full limp vellum, period notes on fly leaves crossed out; manuscript title to the spine,
double-headed eagle tooled in black (tarnished silver?) within a shield crowned with a helmet from a suit of armor on both covers (endbands renewed, slips looped back through covers)
Lacks ties, bookblock is partially detached

-Houzeau & Lancaster 14914; not in NUC-

rare at auction;
Cagnati's only work of astronomy.
Based on efemeridi of Giovanni Antonio Magini, astronomer and mathematician at Bologne

Size  6.5 by 9  in.

Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.

Text in Latin
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Marsilio Cagnati ( Verona , 1543 – Rome , July 1612 ) was an Italian philosopher and physician . =========================




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