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Auction archive: Lot number 144

SCHOTT, Gaspar. Cursus mathematicus, sive absoluta omnium mathematicarum... Würzburg: Heirs of Martin Schönwetter, 1661.

Auction 25.02.2003
25 Feb 2003
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$1,673
Auction archive: Lot number 144

SCHOTT, Gaspar. Cursus mathematicus, sive absoluta omnium mathematicarum... Würzburg: Heirs of Martin Schönwetter, 1661.

Auction 25.02.2003
25 Feb 2003
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$1,673
Beschreibung:

SCHOTT, Gaspar. Cursus mathematicus, sive absoluta omnium mathematicarum... Würzburg: Heirs of Martin Schönwetter, 1661. 2 o (335 x 204 mm). Engraved additional title by A. Froehlich (trimmed at fore-edge) and 42 engraved plates including 2 double-page (browning throughout). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, 2 brass clasps (light rubbing and staining). Provenance : Weingarten, Monastery (inscription "Monasterii Weingartensis 1671" on engraved title and title); Stuttgart, Royal Private Library (small ink stamp: "Königliche Handbibliothek" on title). FIRST EDITION, containing apart from mathematics also astronomy, astrology, chronography, geography, dialling, mechanics, optics, fortification, etc. Also included is the appendix containing Euclid's Propositionum . BM/STC 17th-century German S-1237; Sommervogel VIII, p. 907.

Auction archive: Lot number 144
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

SCHOTT, Gaspar. Cursus mathematicus, sive absoluta omnium mathematicarum... Würzburg: Heirs of Martin Schönwetter, 1661. 2 o (335 x 204 mm). Engraved additional title by A. Froehlich (trimmed at fore-edge) and 42 engraved plates including 2 double-page (browning throughout). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, 2 brass clasps (light rubbing and staining). Provenance : Weingarten, Monastery (inscription "Monasterii Weingartensis 1671" on engraved title and title); Stuttgart, Royal Private Library (small ink stamp: "Königliche Handbibliothek" on title). FIRST EDITION, containing apart from mathematics also astronomy, astrology, chronography, geography, dialling, mechanics, optics, fortification, etc. Also included is the appendix containing Euclid's Propositionum . BM/STC 17th-century German S-1237; Sommervogel VIII, p. 907.

Auction archive: Lot number 144
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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