TROTTA, Giovanni Battista (1585-1656). Praxis horologiorum expeditissima . Naples: Egidio Longo, 1631.
TROTTA, Giovanni Battista (1585-1656). Praxis horologiorum expeditissima . Naples: Egidio Longo, 1631. 2 parts, 4° (244 x 177mm). Jesuit device on title, woodcut diagrams, a few full-page, ornamental initials. (Some light browning and spotting throughout, a few small closed holes in margins.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly soiled, shrunk). Provenance : scored inscription on title. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, only one record of a copy sold at auction in 1995 on RBH and ABPC. Houzeau and Lancaster 11440; Riccardi I(ii) 562.
TROTTA, Giovanni Battista (1585-1656). Praxis horologiorum expeditissima . Naples: Egidio Longo, 1631.
TROTTA, Giovanni Battista (1585-1656). Praxis horologiorum expeditissima . Naples: Egidio Longo, 1631. 2 parts, 4° (244 x 177mm). Jesuit device on title, woodcut diagrams, a few full-page, ornamental initials. (Some light browning and spotting throughout, a few small closed holes in margins.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly soiled, shrunk). Provenance : scored inscription on title. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, only one record of a copy sold at auction in 1995 on RBH and ABPC. Houzeau and Lancaster 11440; Riccardi I(ii) 562.
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