Bianchini (Giovanni) Tabule Ioan. Bianchini Bononiensis, Venice, Giunta Lucantonio, 1526.

Bianchini (Giovanni) Tabule Ioan. Bianchini Bononiensis, title and some tables in red and black, lily device in red to title and in black to final page, woodcut initials, 1i-2iii light damp-stain at gutter and upper margin (including to title), r3 soiled, very occasional spotting, previous ink ownership inscription crossed out on front endpaper, contemporary vellum, upper cover with small worm hole, lower cover with light damp-staining, lacking ties, manuscript lettering to spine and lower edge, [Houzeau & Lancaster 12595. Tomash B150 (manuscript)], 4to, Venice, Giunta Lucantonio, 1526. ⁂ Second edition (first, 1495), the first edited by Luca Gaurico, of "the largest set of astronomical tables produced in the West before modern times" (Chabas & Goldstein (eds.), The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini, 2009, p.viii). Bianchini's aim has been summarised as, to achieve a correction of the Alfonsine Tables - the long-standing contemporary standard in Europe - with those of Ptolemy. He was a great admirer of Ptolemy and critical of the corrupted Ptolemaic and Alfonsine texts then circulating in current use. This second edition contains almost twice as much astronomical data as the first.