HYGINUS, Gaius Julius.- [Poeticon Astronomicon] Higinius de Stellis.- Papiae: Impressum: arte & industria Iacob Paucidrapësis de Burgofrãco, 1513.- [52 (i. é 51)] f.: il.; 19 cm.- E. Beautiful edition of this astronomy manual, printed in Pavia, early 16th century. Work attributed to Hyginus de Stellis, Latin polygrapher (ca. 64 BC-17 AD), born in the Iberian Peninsula, according to some, or in Alexandria, according to others, a friend of Seneca, responsible for the Palatine library in Rome. His biography was transmitted to us by Suetonius. The princeps edition was printed in Venice in 1475, curiously with blank spaces for the illustrations that never made it to print. The work went through at least four editions in the 15th century. The present one includes a representation of the «Sphæra Mvndi» on the first folio, which is repeated on the reverse side, plus 47 figures of constellations and stars, with astrological zoomorphic or anthropomorphic representations. The edition is almost entirely composed in rotunda Gothic characters. Volume missing the last blank sheet, slightly cropped, but clean, showing a small restored worm hole on the outer margin of part of the sheets and that only occasionally touches the typographic stain. Non-contemporary binding in full flecked sheepskin. Provenance: auction 46, Pedro de Azevedo, May 2004, lot 332, Salema Garção Library (same copy). BM STC (Italy), 337. Leonardo Cantamessa (Astrologia), II, p. 1302.