BOSSE, Abraham. La Maniére Universelle de Mr. Desargues Lyonnois, pour poser l’Essieu, & placer les heures & autres choses aux Cadrans au Soleil.Paris, Pierre Des Hayes, 1643 Small 8vo, mm. 180x110; contemporary full calf binding, spine with 6 panels with gilt ornaments and title, marbled end papers, red edges; pp. 6 with frontispice, title page, engraved dedication, 28; pp. 2 with engraved title page, 68; 66 numbered plates engraved in copper out text. The beautiful allegorical frontispiece, the dedication, the title page and the plates out text, engraved on recto and on back of the same leave, are engraved by Bosse. A total of 69 engraved copper plates. Nice specimen.
Very rare first illustrated edition. In this richly illustrated Bosse’s gnomonics work, he explains the procedure to build sundials of his master Girard Desargues The plates out text are numbered from 1 to 28: some are also repeated several times and are engraved on the recto and on the back of 34 leafs. The complexity of the numeration produced often errors in the binding: are thus not complete specimens, as the two of the Bibliotheque Nationale. This specimen, instead, also contains the engraved plate with a dedication to Monseigneur de Noyers, almost always missing. Le Blanc, I, p. 270; Bibliothèque Nationale, T. XVI, col. 695-96, cotes V. 2224 et 2226. The lot is offered with a valid export license.
BOSSE, Abraham. La Maniére Universelle de Mr. Desargues Lyonnois, pour poser l’Essieu, & placer les heures & autres choses aux Cadrans au Soleil.Paris, Pierre Des Hayes, 1643 Small 8vo, mm. 180x110; contemporary full calf binding, spine with 6 panels with gilt ornaments and title, marbled end papers, red edges; pp. 6 with frontispice, title page, engraved dedication, 28; pp. 2 with engraved title page, 68; 66 numbered plates engraved in copper out text. The beautiful allegorical frontispiece, the dedication, the title page and the plates out text, engraved on recto and on back of the same leave, are engraved by Bosse. A total of 69 engraved copper plates. Nice specimen.
Very rare first illustrated edition. In this richly illustrated Bosse’s gnomonics work, he explains the procedure to build sundials of his master Girard Desargues The plates out text are numbered from 1 to 28: some are also repeated several times and are engraved on the recto and on the back of 34 leafs. The complexity of the numeration produced often errors in the binding: are thus not complete specimens, as the two of the Bibliotheque Nationale. This specimen, instead, also contains the engraved plate with a dedication to Monseigneur de Noyers, almost always missing. Le Blanc, I, p. 270; Bibliothèque Nationale, T. XVI, col. 695-96, cotes V. 2224 et 2226. The lot is offered with a valid export license.
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