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LOT 24:
JACQUINOT (Dominicq). L' USAGE de l' Astrolabe, avec un petit Traicté de la Sphere. A Paris. 1559.
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JACQUINOT (Dominicq). L' USAGE de l' Astrolabe, avec un petit Traicté de la Sphere. A Paris. 1559.
JACQUINOT (Dominicq)
L' USAGE de l' Astrolabe, avec un petit Traicté de la Sphere. Plus est adiousté une Amplification de l' usage de l' Astrolabe, par Iacques Bassentin Escossois. Seconde Édtion. A Paris: Chez Guillaume Cavellat, 1559.
ã8, A-M8, N4; [8], 101, [1] ff.: il.; 165 mm. Modern full vellum; gilted edges.
Second edition, added to the first from 1545 with a text by Jacques Bassentin entitled "Amplification de l' usage de l' astrolabe". It deals with the use of the astrolabe in the fields of astronomy and navigation, starting by analyzing the parts that form it and then its mechanism. Illustrated with various diagrams, astrolabes and armillary spheres. Very rare.
