Lot 263

Galileo.- Bramer (Benjamin) Beschreibunge und Underricht wie allerley Theylungen zu den Mathematischen Instrumenten zu verfertigen: neben dem Gebrauch eines newen Proportional Instruments in zweyen Theylen verfasset, first edition, Marburg, Paul Egenolff, 1615.

Estimate: £600 - 800

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Galileo.- Bramer (Benjamin) Beschreibunge und Underricht wie allerley Theylungen zu den Mathematischen Instrumenten zu verfertigen: neben dem Gebrauch eines newen Proportional Instruments in zweyen Theylen verfasset, first edition, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and diagrams, 2 folding woodcut plates (both with short tears), browning, heavy in places, modern calf-backed boards, [Tomash & Williams Add 9; VD17 39:121571A], small 4to, Marburg, Paul Egenolff, 1615.

⁂ Rare first edition of Bramer's important treatise on the construction and usage of a sector or proportional compass in which he cites Galileo (who had published his Le operazioni del compasso geometrico in 1606).

Provenance: Erwin Tomash (bookplate).

Description

Galileo.- Bramer (Benjamin) Beschreibunge und Underricht wie allerley Theylungen zu den Mathematischen Instrumenten zu verfertigen: neben dem Gebrauch eines newen Proportional Instruments in zweyen Theylen verfasset, first edition, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and diagrams, 2 folding woodcut plates (both with short tears), browning, heavy in places, modern calf-backed boards, [Tomash & Williams Add 9; VD17 39:121571A], small 4to, Marburg, Paul Egenolff, 1615.

⁂ Rare first edition of Bramer's important treatise on the construction and usage of a sector or proportional compass in which he cites Galileo (who had published his Le operazioni del compasso geometrico in 1606).

Provenance: Erwin Tomash (bookplate).

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