拍品 154
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DESBORDES, LA DECLARATION ET USAGE DE L'INSTRUMENT NOMMÉ CANOMETTRE, PARIS, 1570

估價
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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描述

  • La declaration et usage de l'instrument nommé canomettre. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1570
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (152 x 98mm.), woodcut device on title and full-page illustration on verso of last leaf, modern wrappers, modern folding cloth box, slight stain at end

來源

Moirandat Company AG, Basel, auction 9 October 1999, lot 379, Erwin Tomash

出版

Tomash & Williams D45; FB 15557; Renouard, Cavellat, 256; USTC 23248

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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拍品資料及來源

The author was a professional mathematics tutor, translator into French of Johannes Stöffler’s treatise on the astrolabe (1560) and Sacrobosco (1570). This book was presented to the dedicatee, Monsieur de Picquet, grand trésorier général de France, by Benoist Forfait, the maker of the instrument.