SOLAR CLOCK - Collection of 6 books in a... - Lot 160 - Giquello

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SOLAR CLOCK - Collection of 6 books in a... - Lot 160 - Giquello
SOLAR CLOCK - Collection of 6 books in a volume in-4, cold stamped tawny basane, sets of nets and rollers in frame and delimiting a central panel, fleurons at the corners and in the centre, remains of laces, three-numbered back decorated with triple nets, slices speckled with red (17th century binding). A precious collection of 6 rare 17th century solar watchmaking treatises, in a very attractive cold stamped binding from the time. The volume includes the following works: - RITTER (Franz). Speculum solis, das sit Sonnenspiegel. Nuremberg, Christoff Lochner, 1609-1611. Houzeau-Lancaster, n°11404 (Rare). Very rare edition, decorated with 6 curious folding plates engraved on copper, including an extraordinary projection of the world map in the manner of anamorphoses (cf. Shirley, Mapping the World, 270). - GRAFFENRIEDT (Hans Rudolff von). Compendium Sciotericorum. Bern, Abraham Weerlin, 1617. Houzeau-Lancaster, n°11421. Original edition of this treatise on sundials, adorned with a folding figure for the ruler and 2 folding plates, one of which is a sundial on which a second removable plate is placed. - BASCHOFFEN (Ulrich). Beschreibung eines newen Instruments [...]. Zurich, Johann Jacob Bodmer, 1627. Houzeau-Lancaster, n°1436. Original edition. - UTTENHOFERN (Caspar). Pes mechanicus, Oder Werckschuch [...]. Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, n.d. [c. 1615]. Houzeau-Lancaster, n°11414. Original edition, decorated with a copper-engraved frontispiece title, a ruler plate and 10 full-page engravings in the text. - ZUBLER (Leonhard). Das ist Kurtzer und Grundlicher Bericht [...]. Basel, Ludwig Königs, 1614-1615. Houzeau-Lacaster, n°11403. Second edition, decorated with a copper-engraved frontispiece title and 8 intaglio figures in the text. - FLAMAND (Claude). Geometria, Oder, Kurtzer Klärer und doch gnugsamer Bericht, zum Erd und Landmessen [...]. Frankfurt, Nicolas Hoffmann, 1616. Edition illustrated with many figures in the tex
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