Lot 88
  • 88

BRANDER AND LAMBERT, 2 WORKS

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Two works by Brander and Lambert, comprising:
i. Brander, George Friedrich. Beschreibung und Gebrauch eines geometrischen Instruments in Gestalt eines Proportionalzirkels. Augsburg: [Maria Jakobina] Klett & Franck, 1780, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary boards, modern folding cloth box, (bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1982), [T&W B232; VD18 1201785X], spine rubbedii. Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728-1777). Anmerkungen über die Branderschen Mikrometer von Glase und deren Gebrauch nebst Beylagen die Geschichte und die Vortheile dieser Erfindung betreffend nämlich 1) Tob. Mayers Beschreibung eines neuen Mikrometers. 2) G. F. Branders Beschreibung des neuen dioptrischen Sectors nebst einer zu dessen Gebrauch am Ende beygefügten sehr dienlichen Chordentabelle. 3) Eben desselben Beschreibung einer ganz neu verfertigten Libel oder Nivelir-Wage nebst Kupfern. Augsburg: [Maria Jakobina] Klett, 1769, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 3 folding engraved plates, modern boards, (bought from Jonathan Hill, 1987), [T&W L18; not traced in VD18], binding slightly soiled

Condition

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