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The Brattle offers the following item from our stock, subject to trade discount:

Hyginus, Gaius Julius. The Poeticon Astronomicon. Greenbrae, CA: The Allen Press, 1985. Limited Edition. 11” x 7”. 150 pp. English translation by Mark Livingston and D. Neel Smith. Title page printed in blue and red, running titles in blue. Title vignette and initials hand-colored, 48 woodcuts in text. Bound in full blue morocco with three gilt-stamped constellation motifs, red morocco spine label titled in gilt; handmade, all-rag paper from the Barcham Green Mill, England.

A fine, custom-bound copy of the the Allen Press Astronomicon, which provides the first English translation of and reproduces 48 woodcuts from the Ratdolt edition (Venice, 1482). Offered with the original shipping box, which notes that this copy was ordered from the Press in sheets.  [Allen 51]

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