1688 1ed Scanavacca Clocks Sundials Italian Navigation Solar Astronomy Padova
Bartolomeo Scanavacca’s ‘Novissima Inventione’ was a rare and important 17th-century treatise on clocks, sundials, and horology. Published for the first and only time in 1688, this book features detailed charts and illustrations of navigational tools.
1688 1ed Scanavacca Clocks Sundials Italian Navigation Solar Astronomy Padova
Bartolomeo Scanavacca’s ‘Novissima Inventione’ was a rare and important 17th-century treatise on clocks, sundials, and horology. Published for the first and only time in 1688, this book features detailed charts and illustrations of navigational tools.
Item number: #7769
Price: $750
SCANAVACCA, Bartolomeo
Novissima inventione per dissegnare con grandissima facilità, e prestezza horologi solari, italiani, babilonici, e francesi. Con alcune tavole, nelle quali immediate si vede ogni giorno dell’anno in perpetuo il nascer del sole, la lunghezza del giorno, il mezo giorno, la meza notte, il loco del sole nel zodiaco, … Data in luce à commun beneficio dal molto R.P.D. Bartolomeo Scanavacca della Congregatione, de’ preti secolari di S. Filippo Neri di Padova …
In Padova: nella Stamperia del Seminario : per Bernardo Luciani, 1688. First and only edition
Details:
- Collation:
- 136, [5]
- Lacking six sheets (n2, n3, o1-4)
- 3 folding plates
- Language: Italian
- Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
- Size: ~8.5in X 6in (22cm x 15cm)
- Extremely rare
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7769
Categories
Medicine & Science
Other
Authors
SCANAVACCA, Bartolomeo
Printing Date
17th Century
Language
Italian
Binding
Vellum
Book Condition
Excellent