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[FOCARD, Jacques]. Paraphrase de l’astrolabe [and] Advertissement sur les jugemens d’astrologie. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1546.
8vo (168 x 114 mm). Mostly italic, woodcut coat of arms on verso of title-page, woodcut illustrations in the style of Bernard Salomon, woodcut diagrams (lacking final m7 and m8 containing the volvelles). (Intermittent dampstaining, some tiny worming to title and following few leaves, erasure and contemporary notation on title). Full contemporary vellum, edges speckled red (soiling to covers, some staining to upper cover, typed title label on spine, front hinge completely cracked, fore-edge wear to rear cover, m2 mostly detached).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE. Brunet II, 1314; Cartier I, 54; Harisse 273; Houzeau and Lancaster 3273; Mortimer Harvard/French 234; Sabin 24933 (the Americas are mentioned on p. 155).