Paraphrase de l'astrolabe
Subtitle: contenant les principes de geometrie. La sphere. L'astrolabe, ou, declaration des choses celestes. Le miroir du monde, ou, exposition des parties de la terre
Contributors: Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561
Publisher: par Iean de Tournes
Published: 1546
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Astrolabes; Mathematics; Astronomy; Geography
Notes: Dedication on p. [3], 1st count is signed in caption title: Iacqves Focard de Montpellier.

Woodcut illustrations in text sometimes attributed to Bernard Salomon. Cf. NUC Pre-1956.

Includes a description of America: p. 155-156.

Signatures: A⁸ a-l⁸ m⁶ (m6 verso blank)

Includes index.

The two leaves of plates following p. [1], 3rd count, contain volvelles with instructions to the binder to cut them out; plate no. [1] is printed on verso only; plate no. [2] is printed on recto only.

Woodcut vignette and fleuron on title page; woodcut coat of arms on verso of title page; head and tail pieces; initials; numerous woodcut illustrations in text.

Sabin 24933.

Brunet II:1314.

Harrisse, H. Americana, 273.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: printed marginal notes on verso of plate no. [1] are closely cropped, affecting text.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf with gilt fleur de lys and dolphins; front board is original; back board has been restored and restamped.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: "Ex bibliotheca prioralis S.[ancti] Petri Moranasterio": inscription on title page.