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Small folio (298 x 195 mm) 66 num.ll. (misnumbered), title within engraved woodcut border, some engraved initialms and diagramms in the text. Modern vellum.
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Renouard, 20:7; Houzeau-Lancaster, 2290; Schreiber, 27.
First edition of Lefèvre d’Etaples’ Astronomicon to contain the commentaries by Clichtove. The frist edition (1503) was published without them.
“Lefèvre’s Astronomicon, a brief introductory textbook on astronomy, contains a prefatory letter to Germain de Ganay, in which Lefèvre draws a sharp distinction between the false astrology of seers and “horoscope-makers,” the true science of the heavenly bodies (i.e. modern astronomy). This treatise became quite popular and influential, and was reissued by H. Estienne 1517 with a commentary by Clichtove” (Schreiber).
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