- 109
Fale, Thomas
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2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching an Easie and Perfect Way to Make All Kinds of Dials upon Any Plaine Plat Howsoever Placed: With the Drawing Of The Twelve Signes, and Houres Unequall in Them All. Whereunto Is Annexed the Making and Use of Other Dials and Instruments, Whereby the Houre of the Day and Night Is Knowne. London: Printed by Thomas Orwin, 1593
- paper, ink, leather
4to (7 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.; 184 x 130 mm). Woodcut emblem of a dial on title-page, text in black letter, 53 woodcut diagrams by Jodocus Hondius (one repeat), quires a–d comprised of a table of sines, metal-and woodcut initials, headpieces; minor marginal dampstaining, some light browning, particularly to first two leaves. Eighteenth-century Dutch comb marbled boards; rebacked, boards rather rubbed.
Catalogue Note
First Edition of one of the earliest books written on the construction and use of the dial.