Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 283

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
VIMERCATI [or VIMERCATO], GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Dialogo . . . de gli Horologi Solari. 3 (of 4) folding woodcut plates; numerous full-page woodcut diagrams. [32], 1-79, 89-130, [2] pages. 4to, 205x149 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 sheep gilt, top of spine chipped; scattered foxing, blank upper outer corner off D3, clean tear in N3, worming through blank portions of title, next leaf, last 2 text leaves, and second and third plates, first plate partly separated at folds, last plate heavily foxed. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1567

Additional Details

Treatise on sundial construction first published in 1565. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 541 (original edition); Houzeau & Lancaster 11367; Riccardi II, 602.