Astronomy - Lot 674

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Astronomy - Lot 674
Astronomy HYGINUS (Caius Julius) C. Iulii Hygini, Augusti Liberti, fabularum liber ejusdem Poeticon Astronomicon libri quatuor... Parisiis [Paris], Parant, 1578. In-8 : 8f, 317fc, 59f. (table). Decorated with initials and vignettes representing the constellations, planets and an armillary sphere. Numerous pagination errors. Older boards, paper missing on spine. A famous astronomy manual in which observations and legends are mixed from sources, some of which have now disappeared, and which has been attributed without much certainty to Hyginus, librarian of Augustus and friend of Ovid.
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