MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Compositio horologiorum, in plano, muro, truncis, anulo, con concavo, cylindro & variis quadrantibus, cum signorum zodiaci & diversarum horarum inscriptionibus: ...
Basel, Henricus Petrus, 1531 (changed in manuscript to 1535). With woodcut on title-page showing sundials of various kinds, Petri's woodcut device on last page, large folding woodcut plate (31.5 x 40.5 cm) of a wall sundial, and 56 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page).
With: (2) GLAREAN(US), Heinrich. De geographia liber unus, ab ipso authore iam tertio recognitus.
Freiburg im Breisgau, (colophon: Joannis Faber), 1533. With Faber's device on title-page with a larger version on last page, and 21 woodcut illustrations in the text (several full-page). 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [8], 198, [2] pp.; 35, [1] ll.
€ 19,500
First edition of a treatise on sundials by the cosmographer, cartographer and Hebrew scholar Sebastian Münster, complete with the folding plate, also dated 1531 but usually lacking in the present first edition. Bound with the third, corrected edition of an influential work on geography by Heinrich Loritus Glarean(us). In the first and most important part, Glarean discusses the mathematical basis of physical geography, with interesting chapters on globes; the second part contains descriptions of Europe, Africa and Asia.
With early owner's inscription on first title-page and manuscript table of astrological data on last free endleaf. With a tear repaired in the folding plate, but further in very good condition, with a small hole in 1 leaf affecting 3 letters of the text. The inside front hinge has detached from the bookblock and repaired with white thread, but the binding is otherwise good. Ad 1: Burmeister, Sebastian Münster 49; Hamel, Astron. Drucke, p. 302; ad 2: Hamel, Astron. Drucke, p. 168; VD16, L2628.
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