Gaurico, Luca. Ephemerides recognitae et ad unguem... Lot 127

[Gaurico, Luca. Ephemerides recognitae et ad unguem Castigatae per Lucam Gauricum Neapolit. Eiusdem schemata & ptaedicationes ad Annum usque virginei partus. 1552 Eiusdem Isagogicus in totam ferme Astrologiam libellus. Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 1533]. 4°. 307 unnum. (instead of 310; lacking the title page and the eighth leaf of the first quire as well as the last leaf with the large printer's mark). With 16 schematic woodcuts of the phases of the moon and 26 horoscope diagrams; all ephemeris tables set on beautiful woodcut "postaments". Interim paperback with cloth spine. (Spotty, bumped; binding missing). Riccardi I, 579f. Houzeau & Lancaster 14657, not in Zinner. Ephemeris tables compiled by the Neapolitan mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Gaurico (1475-1558) for the years 1534-1551. Gaurico was the court astrologer of Catherina de' Medici. The title page and the eighth leaf of the first quire are missing; in place of the title, the title page of the ephemerides for 1534 is bound in (leaf a1). The last leaf with Giunta's large printer's mark is also missing. Some quires and leaves loose. Fingerstaining throughout. Spotty edges.