SOLSKI, PRAXIS NOVA & EXPEDITISSIMA MESURANDI GEOMETRICÈ, KRAKOW, 1688

FIRST EDITION, 4to (186 x 150mm.), half-title, title with woodcut arms on verso, 16 woodcut diagrams on eight folding leaves tipped to fore-edge margins, woodcut diagrams in the text, early presentation inscription on half-title, contemporary vellum, gilt edges

bought from Mediolanum, Milan, 1984

Tomash & Williams S161; De Backer-Sommervogel VII, 1374; Estreicher XXIX, 55

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A textbook of theoretical and practical geometry, with conversion tables of Polish units of measurement. An architect and a Jesuit, Solski was chaplain from 1654 to 1661 at the Polish Embassy at Constantinople. He practiced architecture on his return to Poland, designing his first building in 1670.