(Paper Instrument; Astronomy) GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo (1538 - 1621).
Speculum Uranicum: In quo vera loca tum octauæ Sphaerae, tum septem Planetarum mira facilitate ad
quodlibet datum tempus ex prutenicarum ratione colliguntur, Vnà cum regulis fabricandi duodecim coeli
domicilia ex Regiomontano, & Alcabitio, & dirigendi significatores ad promissores sequentes.- Venice:
Damiano Zenaro, 1593. Folio (420 x 280 mm). [4] nn. Bll., 43 num. Bll., 4 nn Bll., one blank leaf. Title
with engraved border by Giacomo Franco incorporating Zenarus’s dragon device, 17 large circular woodcut
diagrams, 16 with attached large volvelles with a total of 39 moving parts, pasted correction slip on A4v,
„De Harum Paginarum“ (8 pp.) as well as ‚Canon sexagenarius…‘ bound at rear, margin of title extended at
gutter, the moving parts of the woodcuts partly renewed in expert facsimile, light stain to upper corner
through second half of volume, repaired wormholes at gutter of last few gatherings. Early vellum, re-backed
with portions of original spine laid down, endpapers preserved.
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