GNOMONICS
GNOMONICS -
[Leemann
, Burkhard].
"Instrumentum Instrumentorum: Horologium sciotericorum. First of all, the four main sundials are taught to be ripped open without any change to the circle, except for the foundation. How to get through diss New... Instrument, unravel... all kinds of sundials... described recently and brought to light". German handwriting on paper. With marked
Title vignette and 7 (2 of them whole) pen drawings
.
8°. 16 S. Pgt. d. With title on the spine (spine restored, minor faults in the cover, browned, corners buffed, cover slightly warped
).
Neatly executed copy of the second edition, Basel 1606, of the rare treatise (EA 1604), with the two full-page illustrations of the presented device for the production of sundials and its application. - Cf. VD17 23:257680T - Poggendorf I, 1403 (knows only the edition of 1606). - Predecessor: 1. Alence, J. de. Treatise dreyer so necessarily - as useful instruments, namely the barometri, thermometri, and notiometri or hygrometri... With gest. Title and 35 copper plates. Main, Bourgeat, 1688. - VD17 39:120069Y - see DSB III, 534 - Wellcome II, 28 - New 73 - Southeran 929 (all French EA 1688) - First German edition of the early physical work of the French astronomer and physicist. - 2nd Zwicker, C. Compendium horologico-sciotericum et geometricum. Or short term term of healing of all kinds of solar clocks... as well as of dimension of all kinds of fields. With gest., ankol. Title and 31 (of which 2 folded.) copper plates. Nuremberg, C. Gerhard for P. Fürst, 1675, [2] ed., 162 p., [3] ed. - Browned, somewhat brown spotted, with wet margins, 1 fold-out panel with tear at margins (without loss of image), mirror and fly-leaves with wormholes (partly expertly restored, minimal loss of image at the back), 1 sheet loose. - Old hs. Possession notes on frontispiece and title.
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GNOMONICS -
[Leemann
, Burkhard].
"Instrumentum Instrumentorum: Horologium sciotericorum. First of all, the four main sundials are taught to be ripped open without any change to the circle, except for the foundation. How to get through diss New... Instrument, unravel... all kinds of sundials... described recently and brought to light". German handwriting on paper. With marked
Title vignette and 7 (2 of them whole) pen drawings
.
8°. 16 S. Pgt. d. With title on the spine (spine restored, minor faults in the cover, browned, corners buffed, cover slightly warped
).
Neatly executed copy of the second edition, Basel 1606, of the rare treatise (EA 1604), with the two full-page illustrations of the presented device for the production of sundials and its application. - Cf. VD17 23:257680T - Poggendorf I, 1403 (knows only the edition of 1606). - Predecessor: 1. Alence, J. de. Treatise dreyer so necessarily - as useful instruments, namely the barometri, thermometri, and notiometri or hygrometri... With gest. Title and 35 copper plates. Main, Bourgeat, 1688. - VD17 39:120069Y - see DSB III, 534 - Wellcome II, 28 - New 73 - Southeran 929 (all French EA 1688) - First German edition of the early physical work of the French astronomer and physicist. - 2nd Zwicker, C. Compendium horologico-sciotericum et geometricum. Or short term term of healing of all kinds of solar clocks... as well as of dimension of all kinds of fields. With gest., ankol. Title and 31 (of which 2 folded.) copper plates. Nuremberg, C. Gerhard for P. Fürst, 1675, [2] ed., 162 p., [3] ed. - Browned, somewhat brown spotted, with wet margins, 1 fold-out panel with tear at margins (without loss of image), mirror and fly-leaves with wormholes (partly expertly restored, minimal loss of image at the back), 1 sheet loose. - Old hs. Possession notes on frontispiece and title.
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