APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552). Horoscopion Apiani generale dignoscendis horis . Ingolstadt: [the author], 1533.
APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552). Horoscopion Apiani generale dignoscendis horis . Ingolstadt: [the author], 1533. 2° (308 x 203mm). Title printed in red and black with large woodcut of the ‘horoscopion,’ one plate repeating the title woodcut, and 25 woodcut illustrations in the text, 18 illustrating problems of surveying, one historiated woodcut initial. (Two small wormholes in lower margin throughout, one affecting woodcut on title, upper outer corner waterstained.) Modern half calf (extremities rubbed, new endpapers). FIRST EDITION, printed at the author's own press at Ingolstadt, of Apian's description of one of his scientific instruments, the ‘horoscopion’, an instrument in the form of a quadrant for calculating the time by day or night, and for measuring distances, heights and depths. An abridged German translation of parts 1 and 2 appeared in the Instrumentbuch, published by Apian within months of this edition. Part 3 contains a short and abundantly illustrated treatise on various problems of surveying. Along with part 4, it appeared in a slightly different form as parts 8 and 6 respectively of Apian's Quadrans astronomicus (1532). Dodgson ascribed some of the fine woodcuts to Hans Brosamer and Michael Ostendorfer Adams A-1290; Stillwell Science, 811; Zinner 1512; cf. Houzeau and Lancaster 2395.
APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552). Horoscopion Apiani generale dignoscendis horis . Ingolstadt: [the author], 1533.
APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552). Horoscopion Apiani generale dignoscendis horis . Ingolstadt: [the author], 1533. 2° (308 x 203mm). Title printed in red and black with large woodcut of the ‘horoscopion,’ one plate repeating the title woodcut, and 25 woodcut illustrations in the text, 18 illustrating problems of surveying, one historiated woodcut initial. (Two small wormholes in lower margin throughout, one affecting woodcut on title, upper outer corner waterstained.) Modern half calf (extremities rubbed, new endpapers). FIRST EDITION, printed at the author's own press at Ingolstadt, of Apian's description of one of his scientific instruments, the ‘horoscopion’, an instrument in the form of a quadrant for calculating the time by day or night, and for measuring distances, heights and depths. An abridged German translation of parts 1 and 2 appeared in the Instrumentbuch, published by Apian within months of this edition. Part 3 contains a short and abundantly illustrated treatise on various problems of surveying. Along with part 4, it appeared in a slightly different form as parts 8 and 6 respectively of Apian's Quadrans astronomicus (1532). Dodgson ascribed some of the fine woodcuts to Hans Brosamer and Michael Ostendorfer Adams A-1290; Stillwell Science, 811; Zinner 1512; cf. Houzeau and Lancaster 2395.
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