COETS, Hendrik (1670-1730). Horologiographia plana, seu nova & perspicua in superficiebus planis omnia genera horologiorum describendi methodus. Leiden: Joannes du Vivié, 1691.
8° (196 x 145mm). Title with woodcut device. 20 folding engraved plates. (Title slightly browned at margins, A4, E2-3 with lower corners torn away, a little light spotting.) Contemporary panelled calf, red edges (spine repaired but worn). Provenance: J. Harris (signature on title) -- the Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate, shelf marks, blind stamp on title; sold Sotheby’s, 10 June 2004, lot 545).
MACCLESFIELD COPY. Coet’s work on the construction of flat sundials was earlier printed in Leyden in 1689 and 1690. Houzeau and Lancaster 11548.
COETS, Hendrik (1670-1730). Horologiographia plana, seu nova & perspicua in superficiebus planis omnia genera horologiorum describendi methodus. Leiden: Joannes du Vivié, 1691.
8° (196 x 145mm). Title with woodcut device. 20 folding engraved plates. (Title slightly browned at margins, A4, E2-3 with lower corners torn away, a little light spotting.) Contemporary panelled calf, red edges (spine repaired but worn). Provenance: J. Harris (signature on title) -- the Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate, shelf marks, blind stamp on title; sold Sotheby’s, 10 June 2004, lot 545).
MACCLESFIELD COPY. Coet’s work on the construction of flat sundials was earlier printed in Leyden in 1689 and 1690. Houzeau and Lancaster 11548.
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