COSTRUZIONE ED USO DEL COMPASSO DI PROPORZIONE

by Giovanni Navigation. Pagnini

$2,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Foxing. Complete with the 15 engraved plates. Little is known of the author other than that he wrote another book on navigation in 1750. This work on the sector was translated into Spanish in 1758.By the time this book was published, the design of the European sector had become standardized. Compare this design, for example, with that in the fourth

• Binding: Leather

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