Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BION, NICOLAS. Neu-eröffnete mathematische Werck-Schule; oder Gründliche Anweisung, wie die mathematische Instrumenten . . . zu gebrauchen . . . sind . . . Bey dieser vierdten Auflage vermehret, von Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, P.P. 62 folding engraved plates (some dampstained). [16], 432, [12], 176, [8], 48 pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. 4to, modern leather; old institutional stamp on letterpress title. Saul Moskowitz bookplate. Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1741

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First published in French in 1709 and translated into German in 1712, "a fairly complete list of instruments normally constructed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century"--DSB II, 133.