Illustrated with copper plates, Christoff Zwicker "Compendium Horologico Sciotericum et Geometricum Or short term of division of all kinds of sundials/thereby to distinguish/in which sign the sun is; the day and night length; the rising and setting of the suns: next to the ring and quadrants/to recognize the right hour of the day/to aim at all Polus heights; as well as from the dimensions of all kinds of fields. So for the right mathematical reason/to please the lover of this art", repeated edition, in Laying of Paul Fürsten's art and book dealer. seel Wittib and heirs by Christoph Gerhard/in the year 1675, bound copy with drawings "Gnomica. This is the description of how all sorts of sun clocks can be found on flat places..., according to Eberardum Welperum, Straßburg anno 1625, at the end inscribed "M. Joh. Paulus Crusig", later private half-linen, signs of age and wear (including finger stains, owner's stamp, one copper with an old note on the edge (pen), attached part browned, but a nice collector's copy of this very rare edition)
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145. Kunst- und Antiquitätenauktion am 23. Mai 2025