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Spanish handbook on chronography

CHAVES, Jérôme de.
Chronographia o repertorio de tiempos, el mas copioso y precisso, que hasta ahora ha salido a luz.

Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon.

Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon.

Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon.

Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon.

Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon.



Sevilla, Fernando Diaz, 1584. 4to. 19th century vellum, gilt spine with red morocco label lettered in gold (DOMINGO V. FOLCH, Valencia). Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon. 163 lvs. [Collation: x8(8), A-X8(176), Y-Z4(184), AA8(192), BB-HH8 (201-156(=256)), II8-1(157-163(=257-263)), the last blank missing].

Seventh edition of this important, lavishly illustrated and very popular work on the calendar, the movements of the sun, the planets and the moon, the feasts of the year and the signs of the Zodiac by the Spanish chronographer Jérôme de Chaves. The first edition, printed by Alphonso Bexarano appeared also in Sevilla in 1554. The first edition printed by Fernando Diaz (= the fifth edition) was published in 1580; the sixth edition, also by Diaz, in 1581.
Good copy of this rare work.- (Some browning and soiling throughout; small hole in the upper margins of the leaves of the first five quires: neatly repaired, affecting only some headlines; some waterstaining in a few lower margins. A manuscript note by Fr. Jacintho Aime and Fr. Luis Albeto, regarding the opinion and judgment of the Inquisition on this work in 1640, dated 19 July 1648 on the title).
Palau 17457 (67457?); Medina 282; Fr. Escudero y Perosso, Typogr. Hispalense, 733; Leclerc, Bibl. Am. 2710.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Spanish 

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