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1343 - [GINET, Nicolas]. The Use of a Four-Pronged Proportional Compass. s.l., n.d. [Paris 1772.]. In-8°, contemporary tortoiseshell-patterned calf, marbled endpapers, 252 pp. + [iv], with frontispiece and 3 folding plates.
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[GINET, Nicolas]. The Use of a Four-Pronged Proportional Compass. s.l., n.d. [Paris 1772.]. In-8°, contemporary tortoiseshell-patterned calf, marbled endpapers, 252 pp. + [iv], with frontispiece and 3 folding plates. Excerpt from Ginet, Supplement to the Surveyor’s Manual, in Which the Method of Surveying and Compiling the Atlas Is Simplified; on the Reduction Angle and the Pentograph. Followed by: The Use of a Four-Legged Proportion Compass That Possesses All the Properties of Two- and Three-Legged Reduction Compasses and the Protractor, Paris (Brunet), 1775. Among other uses for this compass, Ginet describes at length its application to sundials. Provenance: library of Jean-Nérée RONFORT (1943–2012)
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