Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 355

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SURVEYING.) Foulon, Abel. Descrittione, et Uso dell'Holometro. 16 engraved illustrations, including 8 full-page. [12], 60 pages. 4to, 220x154 mm, later limp vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; fingerprint and old scored inscription on title, light spotting at end, contents otherwise generally clean. Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1564

Additional Details

first edition in italian of a manual for Foulon's surveying device, originally published in 1555 in French. Harvard-Mortimer/Italian 197.