# PETAU (Denis). URANOLOGION SIVE, Systema variorum authorum - Lot 158

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# PETAU (Denis). URANOLOGION SIVE, Systema variorum authorum - Lot 158
# PETAU (Denis). URANOLOGION SIVE, Systema variorum authorum, qui de sphaera, ac sideribus, eorumque motibus Graecè commentati sunt. Sunt autem horum libri. Omnia vel Graece ac Latine nunc primum edita. Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1630. 2 parts of [16]-424-[4] and [12]-338-[9]-1bl. pages, fawn calf, boards entirely decorated with fleurdelys with the initials P.S. in the center and in the corners, spine with nerves decorated in the same way, gilt edges (old binding). First edition of this collection of ancient Greek and Byzantine astronomical texts, including works by Geminus, Achilles Tatius, Hipparchus and Claudius Ptolemaeus, and essays by Petau on spherical astronomy, the zodiac, calendar systems in antiquity, etc... Greek and Latin text printed on 2 columns and numerous figures, tables and diagrams in the text. Damage to the binding with missing parts, wear and stains. Latin handwritten mention that the work was offered to Michael Le Pelletier, winner of the rhetoric prize obtained at the Sorbonne in 1662 (Houzeau-Lancaster, 786).
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