Ein Wolgegr unstreichs Summari B, aller Sonnen Uhr auff acht oder vier eckete stecklin in B Cylinder und auff Guldne ring... zu machen

by Georg Vogtherr

$4,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Early edition of one of the rarest 16th-century German-language instrument books on the construction of sundials. First published in 1539 and reprinted the following year, this is probably the third edition. All are very rare. Strasbourg imprints on technology are highly unusual, and in Chrisman's analytic bibliography of Strasbourg books..... More

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