Chaves Jerome (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Sevilla, Fernando Diaz. 1581 (Palau 67456; John Carter Brown 581/12. Map see Burden, nr 15'.In quarto, contemporary limp vellum8 nn leaves; 263 lvs; 1 nn leaf with colophon.2 full page woodcuts (Geocentric universe 112, recto and the medical Zodiac man 126 verso).19 half page woodcuts of Zodiac signs.2 terrestrial hemispheres, West and East, the West ( 92, recto) being an early map of the Americas (Burden 15).43 woodcuts representing various stages of the moon.Many numerical tables Slight overall browning, heavier at places. New end papers, else fine. Geronimo Chaves was named cosmographer of the Casa de la Contratacion in Sevilla en 1552. The Chaves, first edition 1548, was reprinted many times but is nevertheless a very rare book, probably because it was used intensively in astronomy and cosmography.

Seventh edition of an important, lavishly illustrated and very popular work on the calendar, the movements of the sun, the planets and the moon, the holidays, the constellations and the signs of the zodiac, by the Spanish chronographer Jérôme de Chaves. With a manuscript note on the title-page by Fr. Jacintho Aime and Fr. Luis Albeto, dated 19 July 1648, regarding the opinion and judgment of the Inquisition on this work in 1640. In good condition, somewhat browned and foxed, with a worm hole in the head margin of the first five quires neatly repaired, occasionally affecting a running head, lacking the final blank and with the foot margin of the last printed leaf cut off, removing a manuscript inscription, minor marginal water stains in a few leaves.l Leclerc, Bibl. Am. 2710; Medina 282; cf. Palau 67457 (1588 ed.). Sheepskin parchment by Domingo V. Folch of the national bindry in Valencia (2nd half of 19th century, with his letterpress binder's ticket), sewn on 3 recessed cords, gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, green lithographic(?) pattern-paper endpapers. Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of the author above a scroll with his motto: "Virtus in infirmitate perficitur", Diaz's woodcut printer's device below the colophon on the last page, 2 full- or nearly full-page woodcuts (the geocentric universe and a medical zodiac man), 19 half-page woodcuts (the classical dieties representing the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, with their signs, and the 12 zodiac constellations), 7 half-page round woodcuts of a serpent eating its tail, an emblem of the heavens, the geocentric universe, 2 terrestrial hemispheres and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of phases of the moon. Further with woodcut tailpieces and large decorated initials. Many letterpress tables of the positions of the sun and moon, calendars, movable feasts, etc. Pages: 192, 201-"163" [= 263] ll.