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Famous sundial with the form of a poplar leaf, with beautiful woodcuts View picture(s) 1 APIANUS, Petrus. Folium populi. instrumentum hoc a Petro Apiano iam rfcens [sic] inventum, et in figuram folii populi rfdactum [sic] per radios solis toto orbe horas cõmunes ostendit, ex quibus horæ ab ortu & occasu solis, deinde etiam horæ judeorum, ... In disem newen Instrument, das die Form unnd Gestalt hat eines Blats, werden durch den Sonnen scheyn, in der gantzen Welt gefunden die gemaine Stunden des Tages, und auß der Selbigen, vermittels dises Blats magst du die Stunden vom Auff und Nidergang der Sonnen, des geleichen die Judenstund ... leichtlich erkhennen. [colophon:] Ingolstadt, [Petrus Apianus], 22 October 1533. Folio (30 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards with the original fly-leaves preserved. With the text in Latin and German, title-page in red and black with a large and finely executed woodcut by Hans Brosamer showing a diagram of the instrument flanked by a European and an Ottoman astronomer, each holding an astronomical instrument; a nearly full-page woodcut of the coat of arms of the dedicatee, J.G. of Loubenberg; a large woodcut diagram printed twice (in the Latin and in the German text); and 7 decorative initial letters. Without the folding plate included in a very small number of copies. [22] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Geography  Horology  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A clock face with a rotating magnetized needle View picture(s) 2 GEORGES, Pierre. Horologe magnetique elliptique ou ovale nouveau, de facile usage, et tres-commode, pour trouver les heures du jour & de la nuict, lors-mesme que le ciel est couvert, si seulement on peut appercevoir, ou cognoistre en quel endroict est le soleil, ou la lune, ou si on peut descouvrir quelque estoille cogneüe. Avec divers moyens de rendre cet horologe universel pour tous pays. Toul, S. Belgrand, G. Perin & I. Laurent, 1660. Bound in a vellum manuscript leaf. With 7 engraved plates, and a woodcut folding table. (12), 296 (=298, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Horology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On arithmetics and clocks View picture(s) 3 LECHNER, Johann Baptista. Facillima artis arithmeticae methodus, das ist: sehr leichter Unterricht und Lehr-Art, der höchst-nothwendigen und nutzbaristen Rechen-Kunst ... zum neunten mal in den Druck gegeben. Augsburg and Innsbruck, Joseph Wolff, 1752. 8vo. Contemporary calf.  With small woodcut head- and tailpieces. 347, [3, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Horology  Mathematics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive text book on measurements, proportions and perspective View picture(s) 4 SAINTE-MARIE MAGDELEINE, Pierre de. Traitté d'horlogiographie, contenant plusieurs manieres de construire sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires: & autres cercles de la sphere. Avec quelques instrumens pour la mesme pratique, & pour connoistre les heures durant la nuit: & l'heure du flus & reflus de la mer. Plus la methode de couper en pierre ou en bois les corps reguliers & autres polyëdres, par le cube & par le cylindre. Reveu, corrigé & augmenté en cette seconde edition de plusieurs propositions & figures. Paris, François l'Anglois, dit Chartres, 1645. 12mo. 19th century calf, spine gilt with red title-label, red mottled edges. With engraved frontispiece showing all the elements and instruments of horlogiography, and numerous mathematical and geometrical tables, illustrations and figures on 76 numbered engraved plates, 2 folding, and with 11 repeats, incl. a cancel. (20), 391, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Horology  Perspective  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on the equinox by the 'Light of Leiden University' View picture(s) 5 SCALIGER, Josephus Justus. De aequinoctiorum anticipatione diatriba. Nunc primum edita. Paris, Hieronymus Drouart, 1613. 4to. Contemporary plain vellum, rests of ties. With printer's device on the title and 5 woodcuts with mathematical figures in the text. Some interesting woodcut initials and headpieces. (8), 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Horology  Leyden  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare extensive work on gnomonics by the son of the famous mathematician Johan Schöner View picture(s) 6 SCHÖNER, Andreas. Gnomonice. Hoc est: De descriptionibus horologorium sciotericorum omnis generis, proiectionibus circulorum Sphaericorum ad superficies, cum planas, tum convexas concavasque, sphaericas, cylindricas, ac conicas: item delineationibus quadrantum, annulorum, &c. Libri tres. His addita sunt eiusdem autoris: gnomonices mechanices, seu de designandis per instrumenta horologiis libellus. De inventione lineae meridianae, ac instrumenti ad hoc necessarii compositione. De compositione astrolabii plani & columnaris, directorii astrologici plani. Omnia recens nata & edita. Neurenberg, Joannes Montanus & Ulricus Neuberus (Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), 1562. Folio. Contemporary boards covered with coarse paper. With elaborate woodcut headpiece on title, charming woodcut ititials, numerous woodcut diagrams and complicated mathematical figures in text, some of which are full-page and two folding plates (230 x 350 mm, 230 x 260 mm), title in red and black and printer's device on the verso of last lv. (6), 108 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Horology  Navigation  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Clear instructions for making clocks View picture(s) 7 STÖCKEL, Johann Matthias. Praktische Lehre oder Anweisung über den Uhrenbau in seinem ganzen Umfange, nach welcher ein jeder Liebhaber die besten und richtigen Uhren aller Art selbst auf eine leichte und faßliche Art verfertigen kann. München, Joseph Lindauer, 1820. 8vo. Orig. boards. With 49 illustrations on 16 folding lithographed plates. XII, II, 199 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  Horology  Manuals  Mechanics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Last edition of a 16th-century manual on sundials View picture(s) 8 VIMERCATO, Giovanni Battista. Dialogo de gli Horologi Solari ... Nel quale con ragioni specolative, e pratiche facilmente s'insegna il modo di fabricar tutte le sorti di horologi. Novamente ristampo con le sue figure ... & con un agiunta di un horologio da servirsene al lume della luna. Padua, [after the Venice edition by Giolito, 1585], 1672. 4to. 18th-century stiff plain wrappers. With a large woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 3 large folding woodcut plates, more than 30 woodcuts in the text, nearly all full-page, and numerous woodcut decorations. [27], [1 blank], 79, [1 blank], 89-331 [= 131], [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Horology  Science  Scientific Instruments  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French classic on watchmaking updated View picture(s) 9 WOLBRECHT, Georg. Die Uhrmacherkunst vorgetragen in dreissig Vorlesungen, oder vollständiges Handbuch für Uhrmacher und Liebhaber der Kunst. Nach Berthoud, und den Werken von Wuillamy, erstem Uhrmacher des Königs von England, Georg IV. Geordnet und mit den neuesten Verbesserungen vermehrt von einem alten Schüler Breguets. Aus dem Französischen. Leipzig, Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, 1829. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt, with green title-labels, red painted edges. With numerous illustrations and figures on 17 folding engraved plates. XII, 801, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  Horology  Mechanics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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