A precious sammelband containing eight extremely rare works, all in first edition, notably: HOOD, The making and use of the geometricall instrument, called a sector ... London: J. Windet and sold by S. Shorter, [1598] & MOHR, Euclides Danicus ... Amsterdam: Jacob van Velsen for the author, 1672.
London; Amsterdam: J. Windet and sold by S. Shorter; Jacob van Velsen for the author, [1598]; 1672. One of the most remarkable sammelbands from the Macclesfield library, containing the extremely rare first edition of the first published work on the ‘sector’, also called the ‘geometrical compass’ by Galileo who developed..... More
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