[Rarebooks] FS: "The Poeticon Astronomicon by Hyginus" from The Allen Press. As new.
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(THE ALLEN PRESS) Hyginus, Gaius Julius. THE POETICON ASTRONOMICON. Being the
Illustrious Astronomer's Exposition of the Lore of the World and the Heavenly
Sphere, Together with the Stories of the Planets and Constellations: Now for
the First Time Rendered Complete into English [from the Latin, by Mark
Livingston], and Reproducing All the Original Woodcut Illustrations from the First
Illustrated Edition Printed by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, 1482... Greenbrae, CA:
The Allen Press. 1985. Sm. folio. 150pp. Printed in red & blue on all-rag
Barcham Green handmade paper. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts and a
hand-colored vignette on the title page. Edition limited to 140 copies, hand printed and
bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Pictorial gray linen stamped in blue & red.
Housed in publisher's matching slipcase. Fine, as new. A beautiful book.
$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
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