![CANTONE, Girolamo (fl. 1668). Nuovo, e facil modo di fare horologi solari, orizontali, e verticali a tutte l'eleuationi di polo. Turin: per l'herede del Colonna a spese di Gio. Battista Vernoni, 1688. [Bound with:] [CANTONE, G. Modo di fare horologi portatili a sole, luna, e stelle sopra colonelle, croci, medaglie, e scatolini. Turin: Giuseppe Vernoni, per gli heredi di Carlo Gianelli, 1682].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12140_0324_000(cantone_girolamo_nuovo_e_facil_modo_di_fare_horologi_solari_orizontali065607).jpg?w=1)
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CANTONE, Girolamo (fl. 1668). Nuovo, e facil modo di fare horologi solari, orizontali, e verticali a tutte l'eleuationi di polo. Turin: per l'herede del Colonna a spese di Gio. Battista Vernoni, 1688. [Bound with:] [CANTONE, G. Modo di fare horologi portatili a sole, luna, e stelle sopra colonelle, croci, medaglie, e scatolini. Turin: Giuseppe Vernoni, per gli heredi di Carlo Gianelli, 1682].
2 works in one volume, 4° (282 x 231mm). Vernoni's device on titles. First work: woodcut diagrams, the two diagrams on A14r and A15v each with an applied geometrical section in a contemporary hand. Second work: woodcut diagram, several full-page, one with three volvelles, solar tables. (Title to first work lightly soiled and repaired at margins, both works repaired at lower corners, second work lacks p1 and A1 title, several leaves with repaired holes, spotting to full-page diagrams, two volvelles a little creased.) Modern pigskin over wood boards, red morocco spine labels (lightly rubbed, labels a little frayed).
RARE HOROLOGICAL WORKS by the vicar of the convent of S. Francesco at Turin. Both works contain impressively large diagrams. The title to the 1688 Nuovo e facil modo states that it is the ‘seconda impresione’, the first being the Nuouo, e facil modo di fare col quadrante geometrico horologi solari, orizontali, e verticali a tutte l'elevationi di polo of 1670 which, though titled slightly differently, contains exactly the same number of pages. FIRST EDITION of the 1682 Modo di fare horologi portatili, an earlier summation of the author’s knowledge on the specific subject of portable dials. SBN/It records two variant collations of the 1682 publication, A and B. The present copy corresponds with A. No auction sale of either work is recorded in RBH or ABPC. Houzeau and Lancaster 11519 and 11533; Riccardi I, 228; not in BL.
2 works in one volume, 4° (282 x 231mm). Vernoni's device on titles. First work: woodcut diagrams, the two diagrams on A14r and A15v each with an applied geometrical section in a contemporary hand. Second work: woodcut diagram, several full-page, one with three volvelles, solar tables. (Title to first work lightly soiled and repaired at margins, both works repaired at lower corners, second work lacks p1 and A1 title, several leaves with repaired holes, spotting to full-page diagrams, two volvelles a little creased.) Modern pigskin over wood boards, red morocco spine labels (lightly rubbed, labels a little frayed).
RARE HOROLOGICAL WORKS by the vicar of the convent of S. Francesco at Turin. Both works contain impressively large diagrams. The title to the 1688 Nuovo e facil modo states that it is the ‘seconda impresione’, the first being the Nuouo, e facil modo di fare col quadrante geometrico horologi solari, orizontali, e verticali a tutte l'elevationi di polo of 1670 which, though titled slightly differently, contains exactly the same number of pages. FIRST EDITION of the 1682 Modo di fare horologi portatili, an earlier summation of the author’s knowledge on the specific subject of portable dials. SBN/It records two variant collations of the 1682 publication, A and B. The present copy corresponds with A. No auction sale of either work is recorded in RBH or ABPC. Houzeau and Lancaster 11519 and 11533; Riccardi I, 228; not in BL.
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