[Rarebooks] OFFER:1532 ASTROLOGY, 2nd known copy.

[Laderman]

This is one of two hundred seventynine titles in the catalog Early and Rare 
Science, Pseudoscience and Mysticism which will be shortly issued as an 
attached email file and later placed on my Antiqbook site. All who are 
interested may receive a copy by email.

ANON.:  COMPLEXION NATUER UN EIGENSCHAFFT EINES YEDEN MENSCHEN ZU 
ERFAREN  zu Mains bey Peter Jordan / Augstmon MDXXXII 1532. A, A1, A2, A3, 
A4, B1, B2, B3, B4, C1, C2, C3, C4. 24 Pp. [12 leaves] Small flaw at the 
bottom of B1 affecting a few words on a line on one side, and some words on 
3 lines on the other. Verso of the title page has the full-page 
astrological and pictorial woodcut showing Mars, Venus and Saturn with a 
star bearing their symbols in front of their pubes. This woodcut is 
repeated from the publication "Geomantia" where it appears, signed in the 
wood by "MF." The god/planets stand behind a cow and a ram is in the sky 
behind them. Here the initials have been removed, but the plate is the 
same. Christian Egenolph, printer of Geomantia may have sold or loaned the 
block to Peter Jordan. The large emblematic woodcut on the title page is 
repeated on the recto of the last leaf as a part of the colophon together 
with the phrase "Zu Mainz zuer Buelden Lederhosen." This astrological work 
is unnoted in Houzeau & Lancaster, not at KVK, NUC, OCLC, COPAC, BL, BN, 
GBV, Caillet, Dorbon, Ernst Weil, Biblioteca Astrologia, and is 
rare.  Modern Vellum, A clean, bright copy with the woodcuts beautifully 
printed, with the flawed page completed onold paper. $7,750.00

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