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Francoforti: Ex officina Petri Brubachii, 1549 An extremely rare work. Johannes Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de Sphaera, first written around 1230 and first printed around 1472, set the framework for European understanding of astronomy for 400 years. Based on the work of Ptolemy Alfraganus, and using more recent Arabic sources, he presented a vision of the heavens as a series of enveloping spheres. The tables in his work are an almanac relating the 'rising' and 'setting' of celestial spheres with respect to the calendar. As this work presented the stars in terms of constellations, it also became of value to astrologers. In this setting the Earth is also a sphere, at the centre of the universe, around which the spheres of the heavens rotate. It was copied many times in the 15th and 16th centuries - sometimes as a whole text, and sometimes in the form of 'Quaestiones'. This version by Hartmann Beyer is in the latter form. Beyer (1516-1577) was a mathematician, theologian and… Read More

London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1913 A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 22 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs by Hugh Thomson. Undated but 1913 1st trade edition. Quality Street was one of a series of works commissioned for the high quality Christmas present market. Hugh Thomson was mainly known for his black and white illustrations, for example for Pride and Prejudice, but his colour-tinted works proved very popular, and Quality Street followed Merry Wives of Windsor, School for Scandal, and She Stoops to Conquer. They featured beautiful decorative bindings, colour plates and delicate designs. This copy has a near fine binding, with clear bright gilt design to the front board. The spine is duller, but only slightly pulled, and the back board is clean with 2 very light pale marks at the top. The textured decorative endpapers are unmarked. With frontispiece, decorative title page, and 21 further plates. Each plate has a decorative… Read More

London : Methuen and Co. , 1900 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition. The grey-blue cloth binding has gilt titles to the front board and the spine. It is in good to very good condition with a little pulling to the spine and wear to corners. There is light spotting to preliminaries, end blank leaves and page edges, but the contents are generally clean and bright. Page edges untrimmed. With 47 page publisher's catalogue at the rear dated August 1900.