[Rarebooks] FS: Gauricus' astrological predictions, Venice, 1533

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(ASTROLOGY) Gauricus, Lucas. EPHEMERIDES RECOGNITAE ET AD UNGUEM CASTIGATAE… 
Eiusdem Schemata & Praedictiones ad Annum Usque Virginei Partus, 1552. Eiusdem 
Isagogicus in Totem Ferme Astrologiam Libellus… Venice: (Sumptibus Lucentonii 
Juntae Typographi. 1533). Sm. 4to. Unpaginated (approx. 620pp.). Mostly 
astrological tables with woodcut decorations. Some woodcut astrological diagrams 
and depictions of lunar eclipses. Small woodcut printer’s device on title and a 
larger version of it on the final leaf. 18th cent. mottled calf, a bit rubbed, 
hinges with small (1”) splits at head of spine but holding soundly. Spine 
with a red calf label and an old paper label. Inked note at bottom blank margin 
of title.     $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Gardner #488. Lucas Gauricus (1476-1558) was a Neapolitan astrologer employed 
by Catherine de Medici. This work has tables that cover the years 1534 
through 1551 (each year with its own title). A note at the bottom of the main 
title-page indicates that this work was “calculated evidently for the meridian of 
Tubigen…”

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