CARDANO, Girolamo. Hieronymi Cardani, In Cl. Ptolemaei De astrorum …Cunradi Dasypodii... scholia et resolutiones...
Basileae, ex officina Henricpetrina, 1578
Folio; 292x188 mm; full vellum binding. Collation: a8, A-Z8 (F8 blank), aa-ii8 (ii8 blank); Aa-Ff8, Gg10; AA-BB8, CC6 (CC6 blank), DD2, EE-FF8, GG6, HH4, II10. Woodcut initials and decorations. Hundreds of woodcut illustrations in the text. Bookplate on the inside cover. Repaired spine; a good copy.
A fine copy of this collection of astrological works by the famous Milanese physician, natural philosopher, mathematician, and astrologer Girolamo Cardano. The illustrated book is decorated with 100 astrological diagrams, 3 astrological figures, and 2 Rantzau spheres. The first part consists of his Latin translation of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, along with his commentary. The first edition of Cardano's collection published by Heinrich Petri appeared in 1554; the 1557 publication is the first to be completed with the commentary of the mathematician Corradus Dasypodius (1532–1600), who deleted the famous horoscope of Jesus Christ from the section "Genitura Exempla," which deals with the individual horoscopes of great men, and instead inserted a brief description of the clock of Strasbourg Cathedral, which Dasypodius had built in collaboration with the Habrecht brothers of Schaffhausen. 
Adams C-682; STC German 719; Houzeau - Lancaster 4856; Riccardi I, 254.7; Olivier 2617 (tools 2, 3).