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NATURAL SCIENCES [Matthiolus— Regiomontanus].

plants coloured by an old hand. Full brown calf, richly gilt with
an ornamental border, handsome cornerpieces and flowers
in angles, in the centres a gilt oval pattern of fine scroll-
work; besides the covers are studded with small beari-
sh a p e d s t a m p s, g. b., g. e. 600.—
A very decorative sumptuous binding. Front-cover slightly rubbed, back skilfully repaired.
See Reproduction, plate XVII.
1164 Matthiolus, P. A. Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de me-
dica materia. Venetiis, off Valgrisiana, 1570. fol. With numerous woodcut-
illustrations. Hf. calf. 60.—
Brunet III, 1538. The nice figures represent plants, herbs, animal®, and distilling apparatus etc.
1165 Morato, Fulv. Pellegr. Del significato de colori e de mazzoli. In Vinegia 1555.
8vo. Hf. calf. 10.—
1166 Munster, Sebast. Compositio Horologiorum. In Plano, Muro, Truncis, Anulo, Con
(sic!) concauo, cylindro et uariis Quadrantibus, cum Signorum Zodiaci et diversa-
rum Horarum Inscriptionibus... Basel, Henr. Petrus, 1531. 4*°. 4 prel. 11., 198
numb. pp. With woodcut on title and numerous other interesting woodcuts, partly
full-page, in the text. Woodcut printer’s device at end. Vellum. 360.—
Brunet III, 1944.
Editio princeps, and also the second printed, and the first really com-
plete, work on dialling, the first having been one on cylindrical dialling only by Johann
Schbner, and published in 1515. Extremely rare. The author, the celebrated German geographer, mathe-
matician and Hebraist Seb. Munster, author of the famous Cosmographia, was among the
earliest of the modern writers on gnomonics; he invented a moon-dial and in the present book gives
a number of interesting and correct rules.
A fine copy in faultless preservation.
1167 Perlach, Andreas. Ephemerides Andree Perlachij Stiri ex Witscheyn, Artium et
Philosophiae magistri magnificae Urbis Viennensis collegae, pro Anno 1519 cum
configurationibus et habitudinibus planetarum inter se et cum stellis fixis utique
insignioribus cum ex secundo turn ex primo mobili contingentibus, sub tali forma
hactenus nemini visae. (At end:) Viennae Austriae per Hieronymum Vietorem.
N. d. (1528). 4to. 52 unn. pp. With an ecliptic woodcut. Boards. 360.—
Panzer IX, p. 61, no. 353. Denis, Wiens Buchdruckergeschichte, p. 351, no. 368. Graesse V, p. 203.
Extremely rare and interesting edition. „Perlach trat in die FuBtapfen
unsers groBen Regiomontans . . .“ (Denis, p. 352).
The work is dedicated to Ferdinand, king of Hungary. It contains in the be-
ginning a table of the lunar revolution, an explanation of the astronomical signs used in the Ephe-
merides, and a table of the position of towns. On 1. 6 the Ephemerides commence.
Copy of the library of Wilibald Pirckheimer, the famous friend of Albrecht Diirer with
the MS. dedication on title written by the author: Eruditissimo Viro Bilibaldo
Pirckhamero patricio I Norimbergensi dno suo Andreas perlachi9 hunc I libellum loco strene mittit. /
Good and large copy with rough edges, the lower blank margin of the first 1. insigni-
ficantly repaired.
1168 Regiomontanus, Johannes. Calendarium. Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1507. 4to.
28 unn. 11. Printed in red and black. With numerous woodcuts repre-
senting the phases of eclipses, nice ornamental woodcut
capitals, and four large diagrams, one of these with a mo-
vable piece (partly missing). Hf.-vellum. 150.—
Not in Panzer, nor Essling. Another copy of this edition is unknown.
Extremely rare edition of the famous calendar of Johannes Monteregio.

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