[Gnomonics, Nautica] - CASTRONE, Benedetto Maria. Horographia Universalis, seu Sciatericorum omnium Planorum, tum Horizontalium, tum Verticalium, tum Inclinatorum, tum Portatilium, gnomonice nova methodo describendorum, pro quovis Horologio sive...
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Astronomico, sive Italico, sive Babylonico, sive Judaico.
Palermo, Giovanni Battista Aiccardo, 1728
Folio, mm. 310x210; Contemporary sewing board binding; pp. 30, 351, XIX copper plates folded at the end with a mobile one to be cut and the XVIII plate with the signature of Orlando sculp.
FIRST EDITION. A WORK OF GREAT RARITY, dedicated to GNOMONICS and HOROLOGIOGRAPHY, with appendices on Architecture Military and Nautica.
D.B.I.: "work of considerable effort and breadth of plan, made from previous writings of the same C. on various aspects of the measurement of time using sundials. The topic is dealt with generalities and rigor from the first chapter, which pushed some introductory notions of mathematical, astronomical and geodetic subject ... The book deals all the implications of the matter on the mathematical, physical and astronomical level." Honeyman: "One of the earliest works on the construction of dials by the trigonometrical method." Only three specimens in ICCU.
Riccardi, I, 301, n. 2; Mira, I, p. 203; D.B.I., XXIII, p. 249; Honeyman, n. 621.
Condition Report: Nice specimen with wide margins uncut. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
Palermo, Giovanni Battista Aiccardo, 1728
Folio, mm. 310x210; Contemporary sewing board binding; pp. 30, 351, XIX copper plates folded at the end with a mobile one to be cut and the XVIII plate with the signature of Orlando sculp.
FIRST EDITION. A WORK OF GREAT RARITY, dedicated to GNOMONICS and HOROLOGIOGRAPHY, with appendices on Architecture Military and Nautica.
D.B.I.: "work of considerable effort and breadth of plan, made from previous writings of the same C. on various aspects of the measurement of time using sundials. The topic is dealt with generalities and rigor from the first chapter, which pushed some introductory notions of mathematical, astronomical and geodetic subject ... The book deals all the implications of the matter on the mathematical, physical and astronomical level." Honeyman: "One of the earliest works on the construction of dials by the trigonometrical method." Only three specimens in ICCU.
Riccardi, I, 301, n. 2; Mira, I, p. 203; D.B.I., XXIII, p. 249; Honeyman, n. 621.
Condition Report: Nice specimen with wide margins uncut. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
