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BULLANT, Jean. Recueil d'horlogiographie, contenant la description, fabrication et usage des horloges solaires. Paris: Jean Bridier for Vincent Sertenas, 1561.
4° (225 x 170mm). Woodcut diagrams throughout, some full-page, leaf G2 folding at fore-edge. (Tiny hole to R3 with loss of one letter, tiny compass holes to a couple of diagrams, variable scattered spotting and browning, the textblock trimmed close with a couple of the woodcuts and some contemporary annotations fractionally shaved.) Contemporary vellum (worn and repaired with new front free endpaper). Provenance: inscription cut out from title and repaired – some contemporary French ink annotations particularly towards end with ink diagram on verso of colophon and on front cover -- Leon Raby (18th-century ink ownership inscription on front pastedown and on title) – Augustin Seguin (bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this work on sundials with interesting provenance. Augustin Seguin (1889-1965) was a French pioneering aeronautic engineer, who was seriously injured and paralyzed during aerial combat in the First World War. He subsequently devoted himself to scientific research, inventing a calculating machine, a speedometer, and a stroboscopic device. Houzeau and Lancaster 11369.
4° (225 x 170mm). Woodcut diagrams throughout, some full-page, leaf G2 folding at fore-edge. (Tiny hole to R3 with loss of one letter, tiny compass holes to a couple of diagrams, variable scattered spotting and browning, the textblock trimmed close with a couple of the woodcuts and some contemporary annotations fractionally shaved.) Contemporary vellum (worn and repaired with new front free endpaper). Provenance: inscription cut out from title and repaired – some contemporary French ink annotations particularly towards end with ink diagram on verso of colophon and on front cover -- Leon Raby (18th-century ink ownership inscription on front pastedown and on title) – Augustin Seguin (bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this work on sundials with interesting provenance. Augustin Seguin (1889-1965) was a French pioneering aeronautic engineer, who was seriously injured and paralyzed during aerial combat in the First World War. He subsequently devoted himself to scientific research, inventing a calculating machine, a speedometer, and a stroboscopic device. Houzeau and Lancaster 11369.
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