ALFONSO X, TABULE ASTRONOMICE, VENICE, 1483, MODERN SPECKLED CALF

4to (214 x 155mm.), 93 leaves (of 94, without initial blank), a-l8 m6, 40-43 lines, gothic type, woodcut initials with hand-colouring, smaller lombard initials, first heading printed in red, woodcut diagrams, red paraphs and initial-strokes, modern speckled calf, folding cloth box, some staining at page edges

Cesare Malfatti, armorial bookplate (pasted into new binding); bought from Martayan Lan, 1989

Tomash & Williams A59; ISTC ia00534000; Crone Library 1; Norman 36; Redgrave, Ratdolt 34; Stillwell 14

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FIRST EDITION. These astronomical tables, computing the positions of the sun, moon and planets in relation to the fixed stars, were originally composed by the Cordoban astronomer al-Zarqali (c. 1029-c. 1087) and revised two hundred years later on the order of Alfonso X, 'el Sabio', and became known as the Alfonsine Tables. The Latin version was made from a Spanish version, now lost. For the third edition, see lot 9.