Author: GROTIUS Hugo Title: Syntagma Arateorum : Opus poeticae et astronomiae studiosis utilissimum : Quo quae contineantur versa pagella indicabit .
Description: Leiden, ex Officinae Plantinianae apud Christophorum Raphelengium, 1600. In-4°. 6 ff [42 pp] 1 bl [36 pp] 94 pp , 128 pp . Contemporary leather . Spine on 5 raised bands, spinetop - end with some loss, front joint weak at the bottom. ¶ Grotius's redaction of the Phaenomena of Aratus, the didactic poem of the third century B.C. which describes the positions of the chief stars and constellations. It is here printed together with Latin translations of parts of the poem by Cicero, Germanicus and Avienus, and includes Grotius's critical apparatus.Tekst in Greek and Latin, with some Arabic and Hebrew printing.
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- Book number: 3135