Shelfmark
Gb.4.12
Author
Title
Sphaera mundi, seu Cosmographia, demonstratiua ac facili methodo tradita: in qua totius mundi fabrica, vnà cum nouis, Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumq[ue] astronomorum adinuentis continetur. Accessere I. Breuis introductio ad geographiam. II. Apparatus ad mathematicarum studium. III. Echometria, idest geometrica traditio de echo. Authore Iosepho Blancano Bononiensi è Societate Iesu, mathematicarum in Gymnasio Parmensi professore..
Varying form of title
Sphaera mvndi, sev Cosmographia
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Cosmographia
Publication, distribution, etc.
Bononiæ, : Typis Sebastiani Bonomij. Superiorum permissu. Sumptibus Hieronymi Tamburini., 1620..
Physical description
[24], 445, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 22 cm. (4vo)
Note
Signatures: [dagger]-2[dagger]⁴ a⁴ (a4 blank) A-3K⁴.
Note
The last page is blank.
Note
Volvelle on p. 227.
Note
Title-page printed in red and black.
Note
Includes folded tables and diagrams.
Note
Dedicated to Pier Francesco Malaspina, Marchese degli Edificii: "Ad illustrissimum, ac Nobilissimum, Petrum Franciscum Malaspinam Aedificiorum Marchionem."
Citation/references note
USTC, 4008221
Provenance
Note in card catalogue: "From the library of John Harrison, Head Master."
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College, undated, on title-page verso.
Binding
Mid 17th-century light brown calf over pasteboard, probably bound in England. On both covers, two concentric frames of blind triple fillets (thin-thick-thin) joined at corners; the same triple fillet pattern tooled diagonally at inner corners of central compartment; additional double fillets (thin-thin) within the frame, and at inner corners of central compartment. Spine rounded with recessed supports; divided into eight compartments by transverse fillets and a small ornamental roll; headbands of alternating blue and plain thead. Board edges tooled with a gilt dotted roll. Textblock edges trimmed, rounded, and sprinked red. Endpapers at upper end of a single bifolium, undecorated, comprising a pastedown and free endpaper; endpapers at lower end of the same paper, but with nine free endpapers.
Copy-specific note
ECL previous shelfmark: D.d 6 2.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Cosmography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mathematical geography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Horology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Echo Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Tamburini, Geronimo printer.
Added entry--name
Harrison, John, ? - d. 1642 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Tamburini, Geronimo publisher.
Added entry--name
Malaspina, Pier Francesco, 1550 - 1624 dedicatee.
Added entry--place
Italy Bologna.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50807