Sold for:
$4,800
$4,800
Albumasar (787-886) Introductorium in Astronomiam . Venice: Leuco for Sessa, 1506. Quarto, title with woodcut, printed in gothic letter throughout, woodcut initials, forty-three small woodcuts (with twenty-two repeats), stamp on title, contemporary marginal notes, Sessa's printer's woodcut on colophon leaf, added manuscript index, William Stirling Maxwell's bookplate pasted inside the front board, bound in later parchment over stiff boards, collated, complete. Albumasar furnished the west with Aristotelian thinking.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18