Fc.2.01(03)
Aratus Solensis.
Arati Solensis Phaenomena et prognostica. Interpretibus M. Tullio Cicerone, Rufo Festo Avieno, Germanico Caesare, vna cum eius commentariis. C. Iulii Hygini Astronomicon. Omnia partim è vetustis codicibus, partim è locorum collatione emendata, & emendatorum ratio, ab ipso Morelio, viro sane vt colligere licet, doctissimo, & acerrimi iuditij, exposita. Nos verò præter ea quæ in Parisiensi exemplari reperiebantur, figuris affabrè, ad Ptolemæi doctrinam exsculptis, figurarumque explicationibus, Rufum Festum ornauimus : quem & ea causa præmisimus.
Portion of title: Phaenomena et prognostica
Portion of title: C. Iulii Hygini Astronomicon
Portion of title: Astronomicon
Coloniae Agrippinae, : Apud Theodorum Graminaeum., Anno salutis M. D. LXIX. [1569]
[8], 183, [1] p. : ill. ; Fol.
Colophon: "Coloniae Agrippinae, apud Theodorum Graminaeum. Anno salutis M. D. LXIX." Note that some other copies have a colophon dated 1570.
Printer's device on t.p. and verso of final leaf.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials; woodcut illustrations.
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Ms. annotation on front flyleaf: "Ex dono J. Reynolds, Soc.", crossed out, with "No" written beside it.
17th century dark brown leather; blind tooled triple fillet border with gold tooled single fillet superimposed; blind tooled single fillet along board edges; remains of nails from a clasp or chain in front board; flat spine with gold tooled double fillet lines; fresh endpapers.
Previous shelfmarks: Db.3.1 and Al.4.31.
Second of three items in volume.
Astronomy, Greek Early works to 1800.
Constellations Early works to 1800.
Weather forecasting Early works to 1800.
Graminaeus, Theodor, b. ca. 1530 - ? printer.
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner?
France Cologne
B27927