Alliaco, Petrus de: Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia.

Edited by Johannes Angelus.

Augsburg:  Erhard Ratdolt, 2 Jan. 1490.
4to.   a-g8.   [56] leaves.
Woodcuts;  woodcut initials;  woodcut printer's device in red and black.
ISTC ia00471000; GW M31932; Goff A471; BMC II 383 (IA. 6695); Bod-inc A-210; CIBN A-264; BSB-Ink P-332

GIP number: A46
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.41 bis (see main library entry for this item)
Bound with: Formerly bound as the second of two incunabula, the first item being Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi.  [Venice]:  Erhard Ratdolt, [before 4 Nov.] 1485;  rebound separately in 1955 (see Binding).
Provenance: John Ratcliffe (1707-1776), book collector:  lot 1357 in 'Bibliotheca Ratcliffiana' (1776).
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter for £0.12.0 at the Ratcliffe sale according to the annotated BL copy of the Ratcliffe sale catalogue (shelfmark 822.d.6).
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown.
Binding: England, quarter tan goatskin, marbled sides, by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Jan. 1955;  replacing an 18th-century quarter sheep binding, marbled paper sides.   Size:  200 x 143 mm.
Leaf size: 193 x 136 mm.
Annotations: None.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: None.

 

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