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1309 - BEDOS DE CELLE, François. Practical Gnomonics, or the Art of Drawing Sundials with the Greatest Precision Using the Methods Best Suited to This Purpose and Most Carefully Selected, Intended Primarily for Those Who Have Little or No Knowledge of Mathematics, Paris (Briasson) 1760. Large 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, gilt-ribbed spine, top cap partially torn off, marbled endpapers, pp. xxii + 404 + [ii] with 34 folding plates. A fine copy.
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BEDOS DE CELLE, François. Practical Gnomonics, or the Art of Drawing Sundials with the Greatest Precision Using the Methods Best Suited to This Purpose and Most Carefully Selected, Intended Primarily for Those Who Have Little or No Knowledge of Mathematics, Paris (Briasson) 1760. Large 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, gilt-ribbed spine, top cap partially torn off, marbled endpapers, pp. xxii + 404 + [ii] with 34 folding plates. A fine copy. Provenance Antide Janvier, clockmaker Léon Leroy, clockmaker, Chayette auction, March 18 and 19, 1982, lot 88. First edition of a classic on the subject. This copy likely belonged to the great clockmaker Antide Janvier and contains his annotations on the endpapers and in the text. H & L 11654; Lalande 473 Provenance: library of Jean-Nérée RONFORT (1943–2012)
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