[SCIENCES] Dominique JACQUINOT - L'usage de l'astrolabe, avec un petit traicté de la sphère Chez la Veuve Guillaume Cavellat à Paris, 1598 - Original edition decorated with 49 woodcut figures depicting dials, astronomical figures, diagrams, surveyors and more. Complete with printer's mark at the end. Later binding signed Petit Successeur de Simier in half calf, 5-ribbed spine with richly ornamented caissons, jaws cracked and first board practically detached, second board weakened. Title and date pieces in morocco. Marbled edges. The interior is very fresh and free of wetness, a superb copy of this very rare work. In-12, (14) 99pp (3)

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