Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
UNVERZAGT VON EBENBURT, WOLFGANG PHILIPP JACOB. Annus positionum mathematicarum. 35 engraved illustrations depicting cherubs using mathematical instruments, engaging in technical activities, etc. [108] leaves. Folio, 340x224 mm, early 19th-century blind-tooled russia, rebacked with cloth retaining darkened and worn original backstrip, cover edges darkened and brittle; dampstain in upper margin of opening leaves, title foxed, with blank lower outer corner restored. Bookplates of Sir Rupert George, Bart., and Robert Hoe (lot 3276 in his sale, 19 January 1912). wide-margined copy. Louvain: (Everardus de Witte), 1641

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Scarce summary of the principles of applied mathematics and physics, organized by months of the year, with a new topic addressed each week; submitted as a degree thesis at the University of Louvain.