Sphera volgare novamente tradotta, Printer Bartolomeo Zanetti for Juan Ortega de Carrión 1537
Marco Mauro, Venice
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The first Italian translation of Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera Mundi, with commentary, including descriptions of navigation methods and declination tables, as well as the Southern Cross as a means of indicating the South Pole. This may have been one of the earliest occasions on which these stars were described as a distinct constellation.
First Italian edition, Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta.
Lacking final two leaves, often lacking: consisting of the errata and a volvelle woodcut; translation by Marco Mauro illustrated with cosmographically-themed woodcut title page border, large full-paged woodcut on verso of title showing the translator at work, his desk a globe, with another globe on a stand in the background, a ship at sea in the window, sun and moon in the sky, with tools of astronomy and navigation in the surrounding border; full-paged woodcut arms of Charles V on the second leaf, numerous text illustration. Very early printed instructions about the use of the Southern-cross for the navigation.