Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
PENTHER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH. Praxis geometriae, worinnen nicht nur alle bey dem Feld-Messen vorkommende Fälle . . . deutlich erörtert, sondern auch eine gute Ausarbeitung der kleinesten Risse bis zum grösten, mit ihren Neben-Zierathen, treulich communiciret werden . . . Vierdte Edition. 39 etched plates on 37 folding leaves. [12], 97, [5] pages, including etched allegorical frontispiece * Zugabe zur Praxi geometriae. 55 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, old boards with soiling and stains on covers, rebacked with leather; scattered minor foxing, small piece torn from blank outer margin of plate 4. Augsburg: Johann Jacob Lotter for Johann Balthasar Probst, 1752; heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1749

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Treatise on surveying and supplement, originally published in 1732 and 1739, respectively.