From the Syston Park library, with book-plate and the monogram of Sir
J.H. Thorold. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, with Aldine anchor in
gold on sides. Leaf 8 × 5-1/4 in.


33. PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Planisphærium. JORDANUS NEMORANUS. Planisphærium.
Venetiis, [apud Paulum Manutium], 1558.

TITLE: PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM. IORDANI PLANISPHAERIVM. FEDERICI
COMMANDINI VRBINATIS IN PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM COMMENTARIVS. In quo
uniuersa Scenographices ratio quam breuissime traditur, ac
demonstrationibus confirmatur. [Aldine anchor] VENETIIS, M.D.LVIII.

Quarto (not octavo, as described by Renouard). _Part 1._ 4
unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title and dedicatory
preface of Commandino to Cardinal Rainuccio Farnese, 37 numbered
leaves of text (1-25 Ptolemy, 26-37 Jordanus), final blank leaf
with anchor on verso. _Part 2._ 28 numbered leaves of commentary,
with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last
leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34
lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary
are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a
mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period,
C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a
car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the
so-called _Aldino_ type, which appears to have passed into the
possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here
replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though
only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of