
Lot 26•
FALE (THOMAS) Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plate howsoever placed, Printed by Thomas Orwin, 1593
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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FALE (THOMAS)
Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plate howsoever placed, woodcut diagram of a dial on the title-page, black letter, 53 woodcut diagrams (some full-page) by Jodocus Hondius, with the final 16 leaves comprising a table of sines, soiling to margins of title, fore-corners of opening leaves folded with small losses, some light dampstaining, ink numerals on diagrams on fol. 16/17 added in an early hand with diagram in ink in margin fol. 17, stitched in contemporary limp vellum, soiled [ESTC S101825], small 4to (189 x 144mm.), Printed by Thomas Orwin, 1593
Footnotes
Rare first edition of one of the earliest books written on the construction and use of the various dials to tell the time by day or night, intended for the use of students of mathematics, architects, surveyors, and sailors.
Provenance:"I Raphe Lyall Bought this Booke the 10 of Aprill 1602", ownership inscription on front free endpaper, and repeated in similar wording on title; "Richd. Partridge 1749. Book", "Richd Partridge, 30 Sept. 1802, Coleby, Lincolnshire", inscriptions on blank recto of final leaf (the second repeated in similar wording on blank a1r).