Auction Industry, Press Release
Heritage Auctions to offer astronomer and bookmaker Petrus Apianus’ hand-painted folio during Oct. 15-16 Rare Books event [Petrus Apianus]. Astronomicum Caesareum. [Ingolstadt: In aedibus nostris, May 1540] DALLAS (September 29, 2020) – “The most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to sixteenth-century science was without doubt the Astronomicum Caesareum of Petrus Apianus.” This is how…
