[Rarebooks] FS: Hyginus scarce work on Astronomy. Basel: 1535

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(ASTRONOMY) Hyginus, Caius Julius. ...FABULARUM LIBER [and Other Works] 
EIUSDEM POETICON ASTRONOMICON, LIBRI QUATUOR... Procli de Sphera Libellus Graece & 
Latine. Index Rerum... [Edited by J. Micyllus]. Basel: Apud Joan. Hervagium. 
1535. Folio. (24),246pp. Index. Illustrated with numerous fine woodcuts of 
constellations, etc., hand-colored in an amateurish manner at a later date. 
Hand-colored woodcut device on title. 19th c. 1/2 tan cloth, black calf spine label, 
over marbled boards. Occasional foxing. This copy lacks the final leaf, blank 
except for a woodcut device on the verso.     $2,500.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
Quite a scarce book, the last auction record (ABPC) being in 1979.   Not is 
Adams; BL 16th. century German STC p. 427

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