Modo brevissimo da far orioli orizontali, et verticali

by Orazio Grassi, S. J.

$8,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus · No longer available

17th c. manuscript in Italian on paper, illustrated with five diagrams, one of them tipped in. Bound in modern marbled boards. Leaves skillfully re-margined. Shine-through and occasional ink blots. From the collection of Robert B. Honeyman 1979, III, n°1195 . A practical manual for making sundials, both horizontal and vertical. The last sentence ex Patre Horatio Grassio Socie tatis Jesu.” indicates that the text is the work of the Jesuit

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