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How to construct sundials and mix colours

KNOOP, Johann Hermann.
Verhandeling van de sphaerische of klootsche zonne-wysers; namelyk, hoe men op een sphæra convexa, of ronde kloot, allerley zonnewysers meetkonstig beschr?ven kan. Als mede om in een sphæra concava of halve holle kloot, veelerley uur- en andere cirkels te beschryven. Mitsgaders een berigt, hoe men de sphæra armillaris gnomonica, of hemel-kring-zonnewyser toestellen kan.

Title printed in red & black, with engraved publisher's device by J.C.Philips, 21 engraved folding plates with 50 figures including a sundial drawn on the inside of a hollow half sphere, and a "gnomic" armillary sphere, drawn by Knoop and engraved by J.C. Philips.

Title printed in red & black, with engraved publisher's device by J.C.Philips, 21 engraved folding plates with 50 figures including a sundial drawn on the inside of a hollow half sphere, and a "gnomic" armillary sphere, drawn by Knoop and engraved by J.C. Philips.

Title printed in red & black, with engraved publisher's device by J.C.Philips, 21 engraved folding plates with 50 figures including a sundial drawn on the inside of a hollow half sphere, and a "gnomic" armillary sphere, drawn by Knoop and engraved by J.C. Philips.

Title printed in red & black, with engraved publisher's device by J.C.Philips, 21 engraved folding plates with 50 figures including a sundial drawn on the inside of a hollow half sphere, and a "gnomic" armillary sphere, drawn by Knoop and engraved by J.C. Philips.

Title printed in red & black, with engraved publisher's device by J.C.Philips, 21 engraved folding plates with 50 figures including a sundial drawn on the inside of a hollow half sphere, and a "gnomic" armillary sphere, drawn by Knoop and engraved by J.C. Philips.



Amsterdam, H.A. Chalmot, 1761. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and with black title label lettered in gold. Title printed in red & black, with engraved publisher's device by J.C.Philips, 21 engraved folding plates with 50 figures including a sundial drawn on the inside of a hollow half sphere, and a "gnomic" armillary sphere, drawn by Knoop and engraved by J.C. Philips. (8), 244, (8) pp.

With:
(VERLIJ, P. J.). Verhandeling van de schilderkonst in miniatuur, om gemakkelyk te leeren schilderen zonder meester. Verbetert en vermeerdert met verscheide voorafgaande onderrechtingen, aangaande de Schilderkonst in 't algemeen, en een grondig onderwys der Tekenkonst, om het leeren en het gebruik van dezelve ligt te maaken. Waar by men gevoegd heeft, Eene kleine verhandeling van de Schilderkunst met Crayon, mitsgaders de manier om de Crayons te maaken. De manier van alle soorten van platte-gronden net te wasschen. De kunst van de schoontte  verwen, gebruineerd goud en schulp-goud, en sineesch vernis te maaken. Nevens eeneverklaring der teken- en schilderkundige woorden, geschikt na de orde van het A.B.C. Tweede druk.
Amsterdam, Gerrit de Groot, 1759. 8vo.  Engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, woodcut head and tailpieces and 2 handcoloured full-page engraved plates by S. Fokke. (22), 196 pp.

Ad 1: First and only edition of an important work on spherical sundials by the versatile mathematician Johan Herman Knoop.
Knoop (1700-1769),  was curator of the gardens of Princes Maria Louisa in Leeuwarden,  and teacher in mathematics in the same city. He was a learned  man who wrote a number of excellent works on horticulture, next to works on other subjects, like geography, Frisian topography, as well as a number of schoolbooks on various  subjects. He was also a great promotor of the growing of potatoes in Friesland, and he was the first to bring the potato on the  table of Princes Maria Louise of Nassau, in December 1742.
Ad 2: Second revised and enlarged edition of a popular manual by P.J. Verlij (Verly) on the art of miniature painting and painting  and drawing in general.  The manual was first published by Arnoldus Lobedanius in Utrecht 1744. Several sorts of paint and different ways to mix colours are treated. Verlij describes how to start a drawing or a painting and treats the ways to paint different subjects like landscapes, fabric, portraits, wood and stone, mentioning the colours to use in the process. A part of the book is dedicated to heightening your drawing with gold or silver.  At the end you can find all these subjects and many more relating to painting and drawing in an alphabetical list. 

Very good copies.- (Spine damaged; edges sl. frayed).
Ad 1: Bierens de Haan 2521; Houzeau-Lancaster 11686; Sotheran Supll. III, 1209. Ad 2: Cat. der kunsthistorische bibliotheek Rijksmuseum I p. 199; Van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden VII, p. 53; Doorninck, Bibliotheek van Nederlandsche anonymen en pseudonymen, 4849 (first ed. 1744).

Related Subjects: Art  Geography  Manuals  Mathematics  Painting & Drawing  Sundials 

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