Sold for:
$1,169
$1,169
Sacro Bosco, Johannes de (d. 1256) Textus de Sphaera . Paris: Simon de Colines, 1538. Small folio, thirty-five leaves, illustrated with large woodcuts on title and a3 verso, smaller marginal illustrations, two leaves with margins somewhat tattered, bound in later blind-tooled dark brown sheepskin, edges and joints rubbed, ex libris Luis Bardon, with his bookplate inside the front board. A basic schoolbook of astronomy, De Sphaera was widely published through the incunabula period and well into the seventeenth century.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
