Astronomicon Libri Quinque Iosephus Scaliger Iul. Caes. F. Recensuit, ac pristino ordini suo restituit. eiusdem Ios. Scaligeri Commentarius in eosdem libros, & Castigationum explicantiones

[Heidelberg]: In Officina Sanctandreana [H.Commelinus?], 1590., 1590. 3 Parts in 1, second part with fly title, Scaliger’s commentary with separate title-page & pagination, but beginning with signature AA. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 136, [5], [blank leaf], 131, [1]blank, [3]; 415, [1]blank, [13]. woodcut printer’s device on both titles. text diagrams. contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges (book block loose in binding, vellum soiled, ties wanting, some foxing & browning, front flyleaf wanting, repair to lower blank margin of title). armorial bookplate of the Rev. Walter Stennett. & ownership entry of the Jesuit College at Louvain. A didactic poem in five books, written at the beginning of the first century, A.D., the Astronomicon is the earliest surviving connected treatise on astrology. The first book deals with the origin and nature of the universe, the stars, zodiacal and other constellations, planets, the circles of the sky, and comets, the second with zodiacal signs, their classifications, &c., the third with the twelve astrological places, the Lot of Fortune, the rising times of the signs at Alexandria, &c., book four with monomoria and an astrological geography, and the last with the fixed stars. (see DCB) Scaliger’s edition was originally published in 1579. His commentary is usually bound first in the volume. Adams M362. BM STC German p. 591. Houzeau & Lancaster I 1037. cfKenney 113 & 167(1655 edn.)..