$14,400
Scaliger, Joseph Justus (1540-1609) Opus de Emendatione Temporum . Leiden: Plantin, 1598. Folio, second edition, with additions, collated, complete, with text printed in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew and Ethiopic, with the signature of Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg (1553-1622) on the title page, and an ex libris inscription from the Jesuit College in Ingoldstadt, and a duplicate stamp on the verso of the title, with copious contemporary notes in brown and red ink throughout, and extensive notes added inside the back board on rear fly leaf; in contemporary parchment; [bound with] Jacques Cappell's (1570-1624) Epocharum Illustrium , Sedan: [no printer], 1605, 32 pages, untrimmed. Herwart von Hohhenburg was connected to Kepler and Brahe. He was an astronomer, chronologist, and philologist.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
