Belli Quattro libri geometrici 1595
| Sold for | 9000 SEK |
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| Estimate | 10 000-12 000 SEK |
ON SURVEYING. BELLI, SILVIO. Quattro libri geometrici. Il primo del misurare con la vista... Gli altri tre sono della proportione & proportionalità communi passioni del quanto. Venedig, R. Megietti, 1595.
4o (205x155 mm). (4) ll., 132 (recte 134) pp. (lacking last blank l leaf). With woodcut device on title and 54 woodcuts in the text. Some browning and staining in places, occasional marginal dampstaining. Ink scribbling to p. 18 (affecting 1 woodcut), small marginal tear to p. 39/40, old ink annotations to pp. 95-97 & 104. Lacking final blank.
Old boards, rubbed and worn, with repairs.
First collected edition. A compilation of two classic works on surveying, "Libro del misurar" (1565) and "Della Proportione" first published in 1573, and several times reprinted.
EDIT 16, CNCE 4902, Adams B 521, Smith, Rara, 343, Riccardi I/1, 108, 3 ("raro"), Honeyman Coll. 273, Tomash Library B 134 Anm.
