The Poeticon astronomicon
Subtitle: being the illustrious astronomer's exposition of the lore of the world and the heavenly sphere, together with the stories of the planets and constellations
By: Gaius Julius Hyginus ; now for the first time rendered complete into English, and reproducing all the original woodcut illustrations from the first illustrated edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, 1482.
Contributors: Hyginus, C. Julius.; Livingston, Mark.
Publisher: Allen Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Greenbrae, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Translation, by Mark Livingston, with the assistance of D. Neel Smith, of the work known as: Poetica astronomica.
Although often attributed, as here, to the freedman of Augustus, Gaius Julius Hyginus, the work is by a different, otherwise unidentified Hyginus.
"An edition limited to 140 copies"--P. [5].