Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1941
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    370 S.A 372 84, CHARING Cross RoapD, LONDON, W.C.2. 33 Dialling—continued. MASKELYNE (NEvIL, Astronomer Royal) AN ANSWER to a PAMPHLET, entitled, “A NARRATIVE of Facts,” lately published by Mr. THomMas MupcGE, Junior, relating to some ‘TIME-KEEPERS constructed by his Father, wherein is given AN ACCOUNT of the TRIAL of his First TIME-KEEPER, and of the THREE TRIALS of his Two other TIME-KEEPERS, between the years 1774 and 1790, by order of the Board of Longitude, at the Royal Observatory, 8vo., calf, 1792 ($4.20) £1/1/- MORGAN (SILVANUS) HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA OPTICA, DIALLING UNIVERSALL and ParTi- CULAR : Speculative and Practicall, in a threefold Praecognita, wz., Geometricall, Philo- sophicall, and Astronomical : and a threefold practise, vzz., Arithmeticall,,Geometricall, and Instrumentall, . . . illustrated by diverse Opticall Conceits, taken out of AUGILONIUS, KERCHERIUS, CLAUVIUS, and others ; Lastly Topothesia, or a feigned description of the Court of Art, full of benefit for the making of Dials, Use of Globes, Difference of Meri- dians, and most Propositions of Astronomie, FirsT EDITION, engraved title and numerous text-diagrams, sm. 4to., old calf (broken), Printed by R. & W. Leybourn . . . 1652 ($18) £4/10/- Leaf before title defective in fore blank margin ; engraved title backed and a little shorn ; somie stains. The author is better known as the writer of Heraldic works: ‘‘ Sphere of Gentry,”’ etc. STIRRUP (THOMAS) DESCRIPTION of an UNIVERSALL QUADRANT by which is performed, 13 374 375 377 Propositions as are most usefull in ASTRONOMIE, NAVIGATION, and DIALLING, by which is also performed the proportioning of Lines and Superfices : the measuring of all manner of Land Board, Glasse, Timber, Stone, etc., First EDITION, 3 copper-plates, sm. 4to., contemp. sheep, Printed by R. & W. Leybourn ... 1655 ($10) £2/10/- A poor but cheap copy : top corner of title-page torn away ; leaf B2 frayed in margins ; lower corners waterstained. HOROMETRIA : or the COMPLETE DIALLIST, wherein the Whole Mystery of the Art of Dialling is plainly taught three several Wayes ; two of which are performed Geo- metrically by Rule and Compasse onely : and the third Instrumentally, by a Quadrant fitted for that purpose . . . whereunto is added an APPENDIX... by W[ILLIAM] L[Ey- BOURN], FIRST EDITION, separate page diagram and numerous diagrams in the text, sm. 4to., old boards, cloth back (a few age-stains and some scribblings), Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas Pierrepont, 1652 ($16.80) £4/4/- STRODE (Tuomas) A NEw and EAsIE METHOD to the ArT of DYALLING, containing I., All Horizontal Dyals, all Upright Dyals, Reflecting Dyals, Dyals without Centres, Nocturnal Dyals, Upright Declining Dyals, without knowing the Declination of the Plane ; (II.), The most Natural and Easie Way of Describing the Curve-Lines of the Suns Declination on any Plane, First EDITION, numerous diagrams, [iv] + 68 pages, sm. 4to., neatly rebound in old style sheep, Printed by H. C. for I. Taylor . . . 1688 ($12.60) £3/3/- Title and last leaf age soiled, but a good tall copy. THOMPSON (ANTHONY) THE WHOLE ART of REFLEX DIALLING, shewing the Way to make all manner of Dials which shall shew the houre by a’spot of light reflected from a Glasse upon any Cieling whether it be flat or curved, or any other way irregular, as also upon any other object whatsoever, and whether the Glasse be plain, or convex, as like- wise whether it lie in the plain of the Horizon, or oblique unto it: Together with all necessary furniture belonging thereunto. All performed by an easie instrument fitted with lines to that purpose, First EDITION, 2 full-page copperplates, 12 pages, sm. 4to., » unbound, Printed for Wilham Leybourn, 1668 ($25.20) £6/6/- Fine Copy, extremely rare. No copy has been offered at auction sales during the last 20 years. ) The author also wrote “‘ The uses of the quadrant fitted for daily practice,’’ 1652. WELLS (Epwarp) The YOUNG GENTLEMAN’S ASTRONOMY, CHRONOLOGY, and’ DIAL- LING, containing such Elements of the said Arts or Sciences, as are most useful and easy to, be known, SECOND EDITION, with 16 astronomical and 9 dialling plates, 8vo., contemp. panelled calf, neatly rebacked, 1717 ($5) £1/5/- Each part has separate title and pagination but signatures continuous. The part relating to Dialling has [viii] +44 pages.
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