13 items were found for this query

---

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

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

The immediate forerunner of Galileo on the making and use of sundials View picture(s) 2 BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. De gnomonum umbrarumque solarium usu liber. Turin, Heirs of Niccolo Bevilacqua, 1574. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. Large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee on title; about one hundred geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text, several full-page, including a full-page perspective instrument invented by the author; charming and interesting woodcut initials in the text. (6), 123, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

Classic user's manual for globes, spheres & sundials View picture(s) 3 BLAEU, Willem Jansz. Institutio astronomica de usu globorum & sphærarum cælestium ac terrestrium. Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1652. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With a woodcut globe, armillary sphere and earth orbiting the sun as devices on the title-page and 2 part-titles, 29 woodcut illustrations in the text, including quadrants, sundials, astronomical diagrams, etc., woodcut decorative initial letters and endpieces. [16], 246, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Globes  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

Extremely rare work on sundials View picture(s) 4 COETS, Henrik. Horologiographia plana. Seu nova & perspicua in superficiebus planis omnia genera horologiorum describendi methodus. Leyden, Jacob Moukée, 1689. 4to. 18th-century blue-grey wrappers. With woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 20 engraved plates with diagrams. [12], 87, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

How to design and inscribe sundials View picture(s) 5 ERZEY, Adrianus. Wiskonstige beschryving der reguliere lichamen, aantoonende hoe men die uit massieve stoffe kan maaken, hun inhoud berekenen, en op dezelven zonnewyzers beschryven. Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 8vo. Modern green half buckram. With 12 folding engraved plates showing mathematical figures by F. de Bakker. [10], 164, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Sundials  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

How to construct sundials and mix colours View picture(s) 6 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. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Geography  Manuals  Mathematics  Painting & Drawing  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

Two works on sundials issued together. The second work is by the first Dutch defender of Copernicus View picture(s) 7 LANSBERGIUS, Phillippus van. Beschrijvingh der vlacke sonne-wysers: in welcke de waere manier, om deselve op allerhande vlackten te betrecken, volgens wiskonstige regulen geleert, ende door een groot getal vertoog-schetzen aengewesen werdt. Nieuwelijx oversien ende met noodige byvoeging verrijckt, door Jacob Mogge. Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1675. (Colophon: printed by Thomas Berry, for Zach Folio. Contemporary vellum. Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece. (2), 54, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Navigation  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

How to calculate the local time View picture(s) 8 PUTEUS, Augustinus A. Gnomonices biformis, geometriae, scilicet, & arithmeticae synopsis, in quatuor partes divisa. Quarum qualibet est completus gnomonicae tractatus, ad usum totius orbis terrarum; ut plenius conversa pagina, singularum partium indicat epilogismus. Opusculum matheseos candidatis perutile; quippe in quo iucundissima praxi, ea maxime ex parte degustare valent, quae summis ingenij laboribus, ac studio, ex Elementis Euclidis, ex Sphaericis Theodisij, & ex Conicis Apollonij exantlarunt. Venice, Antonius Bosius, 1679. 4 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum on wooden boards, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in panel design with the Jesuit device in centre on both sides, with 2 brass clasps, red painted edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on 4 titles, 73 engraved perspectival illustrations and figures in text, large folding plate and 183 full-page plates with tables and diagrams, and folding engraved plate and 2 full-page plates of the globe's declinations. (24), 136; (8), 88; (8), 12; 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Astronomy & Cosmography  Engravings  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

Extensive text book on measurements, proportions and perspective View picture(s) 9 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

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

Rare extensive work on gnomonics by the son of the famous mathematician Johan Schöner View picture(s) 10 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

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

Last edition of a 16th-century manual on sundials View picture(s) 11 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

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

Rare mathematical study on the construction of sun-dials View picture(s) 12 WELPER, Eberhard. Gnomonica, oder Gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung, Wie man allerhand Sonnen-Uhren auf ebenen Orten künstlich aufreissen und leichlich verfertigen soll &c. Zum andermal aufgeleget und Mit nutzlichen Anmerkungen, wie auch Dem Andern Theil, vermehret, Durch einen Liebhaber der Mathematischen Wissenschaften (J.C. STURM). Nuremberg, Paulus Fürstens, 1672. 2 parts in 1 vol. Small 4to. Contemporary vellum, with ties. With fine engraved mathematical allegorical frontispiece, 2 titles within a decorative woodcut frame, 16 engraved plates, one folding, and one repeat added at the end, in the first part, and tables in text, and numerous mathematical illustrations and figures on 13 folding engraved plates, numbered A-N, in the second part. (12), 88; 74, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---

An early travel guide for the Dutch Republic View picture(s) 13 [HOORN, Jan ten]. Reis-boek door de Vereenigde Nederlandsche Provincien en der zelver aangrenzende landschappen en koningrijken: behelzende benevens een naauwkeurige beschryving der steden, een aanwyzing van de schuit- en wagen- vaarten. Mitsgaders de bekwaame herbergen daar de reizigers in ieder stad konnen logeeren: gelijk ook meer andere dingen welke in het reizen zo dienstig als waar te neemen zijn. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1689. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Etched frontispiece by Jan Luyken, etched folding plate showing a perpetual calendar, and a woodcut of a sundial on p. 444. [16], 552 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Dutch Golden Age  Engravings  Sundials  Topography  Travel & Voyages  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.

---