1688 1ed Scanavacca Clocks Sundials Italian Navigation Solar Astronomy Padova

SCANAVACCA, Bartolomeo

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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.

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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