Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 356

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SURVEYING.) Schott, Gaspar, S.J. Pantometrum Kircherianum; hoc est, Instrumentum Geometricum Novum, a . . . Athanasio Kirchero ante hac inventum. 32 engraved plates. [26], 408, [20] pages, including engraved additional title with imprint of Johann Arnold Cholinus dated 1668. 4to, 211x168 mm, contemporary vellum boards, covers slightly warped and discolored; contents browned, conspicuous worming in margins in second half of volume, partly repaired, affecting text on a few leaves toward end. Frankfurt am Main: heirs of Johann Gottfried Schönwetter, 1660 [i. e., 1668]

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Later issue of a 1660 treatise on the surveying instrument devised by the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher.