Specifiche

• Autore:

  BAYER Johann (1572-1625)

• Titolo:

  EXPLICATIO CHARACTERUM AENEIS URANOMETRIAS  IMAGINUM, TABULIS, INSCULPTORUM, ADDITA, & COMMODIORE HAC FORMA TERTIUM REDINTEGRATA.

• Luogo: ULM
• Editore: Johann Wolfgang Breuerlin, Haered. Görliniani
• Data: 1697
• Cfr. Bibliografico: Norman 142 and 143.

Descrizione prodotto

Legaturta coeva in piena pelle con piccola bordura impressa a secco ai piatti; dorso a 5 nervi rilevati, auotre e titolo in oro, eleganti fregi in oro agli altri scomparti; tagli rossi; guardie marmorizzate. 2 carte bianche; 14 pagine non numertae, compreso il frontespizio. Contemporary calf, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Woodcut device on title, extraillustrated with 51 double-page engraved star maps. Text-only edition of Bayer’s Uranometria of 1603. From 1624, the descriptive text was published without the engravings. This copy though has been extra-illustrated with the star maps, without letterpress on verso. Lightly browned throughout, a few plates with clean tears along folds, plate between pp. 36/37 creased, paper flaw in plate between p.42/43 causing one hole and a few clean tears, small abrasions on plates between pp.44/45, 58/59, and 72/73, small paper flaw affecting plate between 56/57, small wormtrack in margin of plate between pp.62/63, worming, mostly affecting margins but also affecting text in pp.80/91 and from p.87 to end.