Beschreibung:

SCIENCE FABRI (OTTAVIO) L'uso della squadra mobile, engraved title within architectural border, 25 engravings of men measuring landscapes in the text, woodcut initials and decorations, a little light soiling and staining, old ownership stamp ("ADS") and neat restorations to title, modern blind-stamped morocco, by Bernard Middleton [Riccardi I, 434], 4to, Venice, Francesco Bariletti, 1598 Fußnoten "Bella e rara edizione" (Riccardi) of this popular treatise on the moveable quadrant. One earlier edition of 1595 is recorded by Brunet, but Riccardi could find no trace of it and doubted its existence.