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HYGINUS (Caius Julius)
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HYGINUS (Caius Julius)
Liber fabularum, ad omnium poetarum lectionem mire necessaries & nunc denuo excusus. Basileae (Basel), Joannes Hervagius, 1535. In-4, chocolate half-basane, smooth spine, gold spine title (spine binding).
Second editio princeps of his Fabulae, one of the most famous books of mythology in which Hyginus describes the constellations and their mythological correlations. Some 300 Greek myths and celestial genealogies have been discovered here, some of which have now disappeared, notably Arastus and Erathostene, which were taught in the 3rd
century BC.
Text in Greek and Latin, illustrated with 48 vignettes representing the figures of the zodiac, the sun, the moon
and the planets.
Related to
the suite
:OROSIUS
(Paulus
)Viri sane eruditi, Historiarum liber, e tenebrarum faucibus in lucem aeditus, unacum indicibus tersissimis huic volumini, haud infrugaliter, adjectis. Parisiis (Paris), Joannis Parvi, 1524. Short of
top
margins
.
Title page with decoration in the middle of an architectural woodcut frame, in the name of Jehan Petit, whose Latin translation is Johanes Parvis
.
Worn hinges, blunt corners, caps and tails are worn, title page missing, small wormholes on first few pages. Numerous engraved letters on wood.
Liber fabularum, ad omnium poetarum lectionem mire necessaries & nunc denuo excusus. Basileae (Basel), Joannes Hervagius, 1535. In-4, chocolate half-basane, smooth spine, gold spine title (spine binding).
Second editio princeps of his Fabulae, one of the most famous books of mythology in which Hyginus describes the constellations and their mythological correlations. Some 300 Greek myths and celestial genealogies have been discovered here, some of which have now disappeared, notably Arastus and Erathostene, which were taught in the 3rd
century BC.
Text in Greek and Latin, illustrated with 48 vignettes representing the figures of the zodiac, the sun, the moon
and the planets.
Related to
the suite
:OROSIUS
(Paulus
)Viri sane eruditi, Historiarum liber, e tenebrarum faucibus in lucem aeditus, unacum indicibus tersissimis huic volumini, haud infrugaliter, adjectis. Parisiis (Paris), Joannis Parvi, 1524. Short of
top
margins
.
Title page with decoration in the middle of an architectural woodcut frame, in the name of Jehan Petit, whose Latin translation is Johanes Parvis
.
Worn hinges, blunt corners, caps and tails are worn, title page missing, small wormholes on first few pages. Numerous engraved letters on wood.