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FERRIER, Auger (1513–1588). A Learned Astronomical discourse, of the judgement of Nativities. Translated by Thomas Kelway. London: the widdow at Charlewoods house for Edwarde White, 1593.
Small 4° (175 x 125mm). Title within elaborate woodcut border, opening wooduct initial, woodcut astronomical tables. (Title relaid with minor loss at corners, corners repaired in first gathering, tiny wormtrack on F1-H2, small stain on H2-H3, some faint waterstaining and light soiling.) 19th-century calf, red edges (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: ‘Miscelleneaus collections’ (inscription on title and early annotations).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of a work first published in Lyons in 1550 by the French physician and astrologer Auger Ferrier. Another issue of this edition has a variant imprint on the title: ‘for Richard Watkins’ instead of ‘for Edwarde White’. Houzeau and Lancaster 4849.
Small 4° (175 x 125mm). Title within elaborate woodcut border, opening wooduct initial, woodcut astronomical tables. (Title relaid with minor loss at corners, corners repaired in first gathering, tiny wormtrack on F1-H2, small stain on H2-H3, some faint waterstaining and light soiling.) 19th-century calf, red edges (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: ‘Miscelleneaus collections’ (inscription on title and early annotations).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of a work first published in Lyons in 1550 by the French physician and astrologer Auger Ferrier. Another issue of this edition has a variant imprint on the title: ‘for Richard Watkins’ instead of ‘for Edwarde White’. Houzeau and Lancaster 4849.
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