Primo volume dell'uso et fabbrica dell'astrolabio, et del planisfero. . . Con l'aggiunta dell'uso, & fabbrica di nove altri istromenti astronomici, come nella faccia seguente si contiene

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All published. 4to (209 x 144 mm), pp. [xvi], 325, [3]. Numerous woodcuts of astrolabes, spheres, and other instruments (5 full page); numerous figures and diagrams and several historiated woodcut initials in the text; woodcut coat of arms on title page; several woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, hinges reinforced. Scattered foxing and spotting throughout. Marginal tear to lower part of Ff4, without loss. Some small marginal wormholes in the last few leaves. New front endleaf. Overall a very nice copy of a rare item. Second (first 1569) and best edition, enlarged by about 100 pages, of the first book published in Italy on the astrolabe. Another issue of this second edition was published, with a variant in the title, which begins 'Trattato' instead of 'Primo volume'. The woodcut illustration on page 107 showing a woman surveyor using an astrolabe is believed to be, in the first edition of 1569, the earliest depiction of a woman using a scientific instrument [see: Simcock, A. V. "The lady and the astrolabe", Bull. Sci. Inst. Soc., 51 (Dec., 1996), pp. 2-3]. A magnificent astrolabe made by Danti for Cosimo di Medici is in the collection of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Provenance: Bookplate of Nicolas de Landau on front pastedown. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-10

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