Title: Breves in sphæram meditatiunculae
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Breves in sphæram meditatiunculae: includentes methodum &amp; isagogen in universam Cosmographiam, hoc est, Geographiæ pariter atque Astronomiæ initia ac rudimenta suggerentes, authore Bartholemaeo Mercatore Lovanien. Cum indice rerum &amp; locorum memorabilium.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. pp. [152] (last 2 blank). Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁴. Old marbled wrappers, boxed. Contains woodcuts. From the library of Michel Chasles. First edition. Printer's device on title page. Engraved initials. Printed annotations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">"Ex libris J[ohannes] Kepler" on title page, forged by the “prince of forgers” Vrain-Denis Lucas and crossed prior to the sale of Chasles's books (cf. H. Bordier &amp; É. Mabille, Une fabrique de faux autographes, ou récit de l’affaire Vrain Lucas. Paris, 1870, p. 73, last entry). As all the forged autographs manuscripts and letters purchased by Chasles from Lucas are in the Bibliothèque Nationale, the few surviving "association books" are the only examples of Lucas' forgeries now possible to acquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See also F. van Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'oeuvre mercatorienne. Paris, 1918, p. 69.
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