Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Illustrated Manuscript on Paper, Spanish.
Military Architecture, Conic Sections, Mathematics, & Mechanical Inventions.

Spain, 1760s.

Quarto format manuscript on paper consisting of several sections, each illustrated with hand-drawn folding diagrams; the work associated Jesuit professor Cristiano Riegen of the Reial Academia de Ciencies Exactes in Madrid, with several mentions of his name in each work; each section numbered separately, likely class notes, bound in full contemporary parchment, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.