Astrolabiorum seu vtriusque planisphaerij vniuersalis, et particularis vsus
By: per modum compendij traditus à Valeriano Regnartio Belga ; illmo. et excmo. D. D. Francisco Peretto, principis Venafri filio
Publisher: Apud Bartholomaeum Zannettum
Published: 1610
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Astrolabes; Early works to 1800; Astronomy
Other titles: Astrolabiorvm sev vtrivsqve planisphaerii vniversalis, et particvlaris vsvs; Astrolabiorum seu utriusque planisphaerii universalis et particularis usus
Notes: By Odo Malcotius consult Foppens, J.F. Bibliotheca Belgica, tome 2, page 929,  Van der Meer, W. Biografische index van de Benelux, page 904, and Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, V, column 281.

Plates engraved by Valérian Regnartius.

Signatures: A-F⁴ G⁶.

Title vignette (Jesuit device); initials.

Last page blank.

Plates labeled: ʺ1a [-3a] Figura[rum] tabula Compendij astrolabio[rum] Valer. [or Valerianij] Regnarij pro folio 6 [43, 44].ʺ

Universal short title catalogue, entry 4021967

Purchase; Leo Cadogan Rare Books; 2021 April 30; 2021-190; Harrison D. Horblit Fund for the History of Science.

Crossed out former owner's inscription: Collegij Firmani Societatij Jesu.

Manuscript shelf marks on cover; one reads "XII 888" vertically and is entirely on the vellum portion of the cover; the other, "XII 244", reads horizontally with "244" on the paper cover. "XI" and "24" have been lightly struck through in pen.

Plate 1 tipped onto fore-edge of page 7; plate 2 previously tipped onto fore-edge of page 43 (now detached and laid in between pages 42 and 43); plate 3 tipped onto fore-edge of page 45. Corresponding page numbers "43" and "45" added in pen on plates 2 and 3, respectively.

Minor textual correction in pen on page 9.

Bound in stiff paper wrappers with vellum covering spine; shelf marks: "XII 888" written at head of front cover on vellum ("XII" partially crossed out), added to the right of "XII", on the paper wrapper, is "244" (also partially crossed out); in prefab, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Cap. I. De variis astrolabiorum generibus; title: Cap. II. De partibus vtriusque planisphaerij vniuersalis, Ioannis de Rojas, & Gemmae Frisij; title: Cap. III. Vsus vtriusque planisphaerij vuniuersalis, xvij. propositionibus compendiosè traditus; title: Cap. IIII. De partibus vtriusque astrolabij particularis, Ioannis Stoflerini, Odonis Malcotij; title: Cap. V. Vsus vtriusque astrolabij particularis, xvij. propositionibus compendiosè traditus; title: Cap. VI. De varijs astrolabij aequinoctialis hemisphaerici generibus, eorumq. vsu; title: VII. Vsus quadrati geometrici, & quadrantis; title: Tabula tangentium & secantium per quartas partes graduum quadrantis.