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FOUR RARE ASTROLOGICAL TREATISES.:A sammelband including:
1. REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES. 1436–1476. Tabul[a]e Directionum… Cum plerisq[ue] additionibus: ac novis tabellis: quin [et] Gaurici compendiolo. Edited by Luca Gaurico. Venice: Lucas Antonius Junta, 1524.
8vo (210 x 145 mm). Title page in red and black, woodcut printer\’s device in red at base, and at colophon of each part. Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps, straps renewed.
Provenance: Gyorgy Kern? (ink inscription); two library stamps (illegible).
2. ALCHABITIUS [AL-QABISI, ABU AL-SAQR \’ABD AL-\’AZIZ IBN \’UTHMAN IBN \’ALI]. Fl.950. Opus ad scrutanda stellarum magisterial isagogicum. Venice: Melchior Sessa Petrus de Ravanis, 1521.
Sessa woodcut device to title, woodcut horoscopes and diagrams. Adams A-24.
3. LEOPOLD, DUKE OF AUSTRIA. 1176-1230. Compilatio de astrorum scientia Decem continentis tractatus. Venice: Melchior Sessa Petrus de Ravanis, 1520.
Adams L-516.
4. ALBUMASAR [ABU MA\’SHAR AL-BALKHI, JA\’FAR IBN MUHAMMAD]. 787-886. De magnis coniunctionibus annorum revolutionibus ac eorum profectionibus octo continens tractatus. Venice: Melchoir Sessa, 1515. Woodcut illustration of an astronomer to title, Sessa device to colophon, 271 woodcut illustrations of planets constellations, diagrams and horoscopes. Adams A-566.
A very rare compendium of early 16th-century Venetian editions of important astrological and astronomical works, bound in a contemporary German pigskin binding. Leopold\’s compendium consists primarily of the writings of Abu Ma\’shar. The woodcuts in the last work are executed in the most accomplished Venetian manner.
