Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
ANGELOCRATOR, DANIEL. Doctrina de ponderibus, monetis, et mensuris per totum terrarum orbem usitatis. 2 engraved world maps on 3 folding leaves; 2 folding letterpress tables. [2], 171 pages. 4to, 190x145 mm, 17th-century speckled sheep, spine and cover edges heavily worn; text heavily browned with narrow wormtrail through around 15 leaves not impairing legibility, maps clean, with margins partly trimmed to conform to the shape of the image. Signature of William Jones on title; Macclesfield embossed stamp on title and next leaf, and armorial bookplate of the South Library at Shirburn Castle on front pastedown. Frankfurt am Main: Johann Nicolaus Stoltzenberger, 1628

Additional Details

Second edition of a 1617 book on weights, measures, and coinage, illustrated with 2 versions of a world map in the form of 4 gores, based on a projection invented by the author. Shirley 320.