$12,300
Stoeffler, Johannes (1452-1531) Calendarium Romanum Magnum . Oppenheim: Kobel, [1518]. [bound with] Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque . Oppenheim: Kobel, 1513. First edition, folio, collated, complete; title page and dedication leaf printed within woodcut borders, fourteen leaves of preliminary matter, including index; seventy-four leaf section, Propositiones in Calendarium Romanum , with calendrical tables; six leaf section printed in two columns, in red and black, with geographical coordinates for dozens of European cities, and a small woodcut city view at the bottom of each column; the calendar follows, printed on thirteen leaves, in red and black, one page for each month, with the zodiacal sign in a woodcut rondelle at the fore edge, and a woodcut illustrating the common activities for the month printed at the foot of each page, calendars for 1518, 1537 and 1556 on the verso of each; the next eleven pages are taken up with illustrated tables of partial and total solar and lunar eclipses, printed in red and black, for the years from 1518 to 1573; forty-seven pages of tables printed in red and black of moveable feasts, solar and lunar cycles, and the positions of the signs of the zodiac up to 1579; followed by four full-page black and red woodcuts of astronomical instruments. [ Elucidatio Fabricae ], title page printed within architectural woodcut compartment; woodcut arms of George Simler; nineteen large woodcut diagrams, with extension slips on several, fifteen woodcuts depicti Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18