拍品 629
  • 629

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS, ITALIAN, 7 VOLUMES

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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描述

  • A collection of 7 volumes, comprising:
i. Bartoli, Cosimo (1503-1572). Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le prouincie, le prospettiue & tutte le altre cose terrene. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi, 1589, 4to, title within woodcut border, contemporary vellum, woodcut diagrams and folding plate, (bought from Luigi Gonnelli & figli, Florence, 1986), [T&W B110; Edit16 4304; USTC 812418], title repaired with loss, some dampstaining, rebacked ii. Pifferi, Francesco. Monicometro instromento da misurar con la vista stando fermo. Siena: Luca Bonetti, 1595, 4to, woodcut diagrams, later vellum, (bought from Robin Halwas, London, 1994), [T&W P81; Edit16 26583; USTC 848732] iii. Fiammelli, Giovanni Francesco (1565-1613). La riga matematica. Rome: Carlo Vullietti, 1605, 4to, diagrams, contemporary calf, bookplate of Henry Ponnall, (bought from Historical Technology, Marblehead, MA, 1987), [T&W F51; USTC 4035210], rubbed iv. Fabri, Ottavio (1545-ca. 1611/1612). L'uso del la squadra mobile. Padua: Pietro Bertelli, 1615, 4to, title within engraved architectural border, engraved illustrations, contemporary carta rustica, modern cloth folding box, (bought from Mediolanum, Milan, 1988), [T&W F7; USTC 4023825], rebacked v. Leoni, Antonio Camillo. Lo squadro. Parma: Alberto Pazzoni and Paolo Monti, 1699, 4to, engraved frontispiece, 7 folding plates, old vellum, (bought from Mediolanum, Milan, 1988), [T&W L78], some worming, mostly marginal vi. Ceneri, Angelo Maria. L' uso dello strumento geometrico detto la tavoletta. Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1728, 4to, 12 folding plates, contemporary carta rustica, (bought from Martayan Lan, New York, 1989), [T&W C54], binding worn vii. Sangiovanni, Antonio and Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795). La squadra mobile, l'aritmetica e l'agricoltura. Vicenza: Giandomenico Occhi, 1759, 4to, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf-backed boards, (bought from Luigi Gonnelli & figli, Florence, 1986), [T&W S11], rubbed

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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