Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . The followfng, and last cut of the constellations, is the Fish ; Avhich, aswell as the Swan, is among the most correct decorations in the volume :. Tenice; H82.] HYGINUS. 391 We have now reached as far as f 4, reverse ; the signatures running ineights. On the recto of f 5, begins the 4th and last book—* De quinquecirculotum inter corpora coclejetia notatione» et planetiis/ A wood-cut of theSun (Apollo in his chariot) is on the recto of g 4. The Moon (a figure,with a bow and arrow, drawn by two
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . The followfng, and last cut of the constellations, is the Fish ; Avhich, aswell as the Swan, is among the most correct decorations in the volume :. Tenice; H82.] HYGINUS. 391 We have now reached as far as f 4, reverse ; the signatures running ineights. On the recto of f 5, begins the 4th and last book—* De quinquecirculotum inter corpora coclejetia notatione» et planetiis/ A wood-cut of theSun (Apollo in his chariot) is on the recto of g 4. The Moon (a figure,with a bow and arrow, drawn by two females) follows. The remainingplanets succeed in due order: and of these, rentis, Jupiter, and Marsare the more curiously represented—as the reader may observe in thefac-similes from the ensuing impression : the cuts in both being preciselyalike. This last signature, g, closes the volume, having 10 leaves. Aftertwo sets of verses by Jacobus Sentinus, we read a third, by a diflferenthand, thus: i^oc %u^^tm^i^ ratbdt gentianujS Crljarbujef. SDlflfpo^itijsf jefigniie? tjitbiq; pretext ogus?.Sin quo ^i quiti ettt: quotx non tibi pattt platthit €jC omni: bido non miji queitfo* tiabiiBf:l^i pvin^ SIffinii ccme^ itionumenta tjirotum* ^crip
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