Sale 2563 - Lot 192

Sale 2563 - Lot 192
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Early Printed Books

Sale 2563 - Lot 192

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000

Aratus of Solis (circa 315-240 BCE)
Syntagma Arateorum: Opus Poetica et Astronomia.

Leiden: Christopher Raphelengius for Plantin, 1600.

First edition, edited by the young Hugo Grotius (1583-1645); illustrated with forty-three full-paged engravings and one folding engraving of constellations by Jacob de Gheyn; bound in full antique red morocco, with gilt decoration on boards and lettering on spine, aeg, marbled endleaves (corners bumped with some damage, headcap chipped); the Hoe copy, with his gilt-tooled morocco book label pasted inside the front board, 9 x 6 in.

Adams A-1519; Lalande page 135.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.

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