Elucidatio fabricae vsusque astrolabii, /
Stoeffler, Johann,1452-1531.
Dunfermline, Alexander Seton,Earl of,1555-1622,former owner.StEdNL
Marnef et Cavellat (Paris, France),printer.
Parisiis, : Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, & Gulielmum Cavellat, sub Pelicano, monte D. Hilary.,
1570..
Signatures:  *⁸ A-X⁸ Y⁴.
Folded tables not included in pagination or register.
Title page printer's device with motto "In me mors, in me vita".
Numerous woodcut illustrations; tables; woodcut initials and tail-pieces.
Manuscript signature at the foot of the title page "Alexander Seton" which indicates that this book was formerly in the library of Alexander Seton (1555-1622), Chancellor of Scotland 1605-1622 and 1st Earl of Dunfermline. Seton came from a pious Catholic family and, as a younger son, was destined for a career in the church. In 1571, when he was about fifteen, he was sent to the Jesuit-run German college in Rome, presumably to avoid the upheaval caused by the Reformation in Scotland. In Rome he acquired an enthusiasm for books and a knowledge of mathematics. As a very wealthy man he had a large collection of books; on his death in 1622 the libraries at his properties at Pinkie and Fyvie were valued at the huge sum of £1333 6s 4d. According to his descendant Walter Seton, writing in 1923, this book "was probably one of his earliest purchases. He was using [this] signature up to about 1586". Walter Seton was then the owner of this book and ten others with the same provenance.
A manuscript has been used to cover the front and back boards.
Astrolabes
France Paris.