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1789. BOOK: (GNOMONICS-CLOCKMAKING). ZERELLA Y YCOAGA, MANUEL DE: TRATADO GENERAL Y MATEMATICO DE RELOXERÍA, QUE COMPRENDE EL MÓDO DE HACER RELOXES DE TODAS LAS CLASES, Y DEL DE SABERLOS COMPONER Y ARREGLAR POR DIFÍCILES QUE SÉAN. Madrid: Imp. Real. 1789. 4º minor. 2 h. + XIV + 408 p. + 22 folded plates. Good paper. Some occasional damp staining. First 4 h. with weakened paper and some soiling, pencil marks on verso of title page and some period ink annotation. Enc. in half leather, tips, somewhat deteriorated, spine cracked and with rubbed drawers. Zerella was a watchmaker to Ferdinand VI and, after studying in Geneva, founded his own watchmaking school in Spain, to compete with France and England. At the end of the work he explains an apparatus of his invention for punching music cylinders. Palau 380316, First Edition. CCPB 437274-3.
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1789. BOOK: (GNOMONICS-CLOCKMAKING). ZERELLA Y YCOAGA, MANUEL DE: TRATADO GENERAL Y MATEMATICO DE RELOXERÍA, QUE COMPRENDE EL MÓDO DE HACER RELOXES DE TODAS LAS CLASES, Y DEL DE SABERLOS COMPONER Y ARREGLAR POR DIFÍCILES QUE SÉAN. Madrid: Imp. Real. 1789. 4º minor. 2 h. + XIV + 408 p. + 22 folded plates. Good paper. Some occasional damp staining. First 4 h. with weakened paper and some soiling, pencil marks on verso of title page and some period ink annotation. Enc. in half leather, tips, somewhat deteriorated, spine cracked and with rubbed drawers. Zerella was a watchmaker to Ferdinand VI and, after studying in Geneva, founded his own watchmaking school in Spain, to compete with France and England. At the end of the work he explains an apparatus of his invention for punching music cylinders. Palau 380316, First Edition. CCPB 437274-3.
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