Lot 628
  • 628

SUNDIALS, ENGLISH, A COLLECTION OF 3 VOLUMES ON DIALLING

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A collection of 3 volumes on dialling, comprising:
i. Brown, John. Horologiographia: or, the art of dyalling. London: John Danby and others, 1671, 8vo, 25 engravings cut out and pasted to margins of text leaves (originally printed on 41 leaves), contemporary calf, bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield (sale in these rooms, 10 June 2004, lot 431, £750, Erwin Tomash), [T&W B274; ESTC R17803; Wing B5042], lacking frontispiece and some diagramsii. Good, John (active 1706-1733). The Art of shadows: or, universal dialling. London: J. Robinson and others, 1711, 8vo, second edition, 11 folding plates, hour scale pasted on rear endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, inscriptions “Robert Kyffin” (title-page) and “R. Kyffin 1712” (endpaper), (bought from E.M. Lawson, East Hagbourne, 2002), [T&W G59; ESTC T90164], browned, binding rebackediii. Good, John. The Art of shadows: or, universal dialling… the third edition, with additions. London: Mount and Page, 1721, third edition, 8vo, 11 folding plates, contemporary sheep, inscribed “James Milbourn”, (bought from E.M. Lawson, East Hagbourne, 2002, Catalogue 304, item 56), [T&W G60; Adams, Mount & Page 27; ESTC T122468], joints cracking

Condition

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