[Rarebooks] FS: One of the earliest works on the making and use of the astrolabe.

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(SCIENCE) Stoeffler, Johann. ELUCIDATIO FABRICAE USUQUE ASTROLABII... Paris: 
Gulielmum Cavellat. 1553. 8vo. ff.(8),172. Index. 2 folding tables at back. 
With 44 woodcuts in the text, some full page. The final section of the text pp. 
152-172, “De Geometricis Meusurationibus Rerum,” is particularly well 
illustrated, depicting the use of the astrolabe for measuring. Bound in a 15th 
century vellum music manuscript leaf, covering boards, leather spine label.     
$2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
On the making and use of the astrolabe. Stoeffler (1452-1531) wrote “The 
earliest German [authored] Book on the subject of the astrolabe [that] is also the 
best.” (Gunther, THE ASTROLABES OF THE WORLD.) It first appeared in 1512 in 
folio format. Our 1553 edition is the first, of many, octavo editions, printed 
in the 16th century. Houzeau & Lancaster #3256. BL French STC p. 408. 

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