The compost of Ptholomeus, prince of astronomye : very necessarye, vtile, and profytable, for all suche, as desyre the knowledge of the science of astronomye.

  • Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1562?]
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Publication/Creation

[London] : Imprinted at London in Saint Brydes Churchyarde oueragaynst the north doore of the church, by Thomas Colwell, [1562?]

Physical description

4 unnumbered pages, 95 [i.e. 96] leaves : 1 portrait

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 20481.7

Notes

Translated into English from French.--Cf. STC (2nd ed.)
Name of publisher taken from colophon; date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.) and NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Leaves 43 and 57 misnumbered as 34 and 56 respectively, and number 59 repeated in foliation.
Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴.
T.p. contains illustration.
Imperfect: leaf 40 torn with some loss of print; tightly bound with slight loss of print.
Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1857:30) s1999 miun s

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