LEYBOURN, WILLIAM
Sale 322 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Aug 6, 2014
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 -
700
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$344
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LEYBOURN, WILLIAM
Dialling, Plain, Concave, Convex, Projective, Reflective, Refractive. Shewing, how to make all such Dials, and to adorn them with all useful Furniture relating to the Course of the Sun. London: J. Matthews, 1700.Folio, full contemporary panelled calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label. Second edition, expanded and corrected, with engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous tables, six engraved figures and 32 engraved plates, (14 fold-out), illustrating the construction and use of dials. Contemporary manuscript inscription to verso title page and ex-libris to front pastedown; inner hinges cracked; intermittent foxing and a few stains; a few plates with small tears at lower edge and light toning to fore edge.
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