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GARCIA DE CESPEDES, Andrés (1560-1611). Libro de instrumentos nuevos de geometria. Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1606.
First edition of a rare scientific work by Garcia de Cespedes, Royal Cosmographer to Felipe III. It includes the most comprehensive description of hydraulics to have been published in Spain. The author 'had spent seven years in the Portuguese Court, learning from prestigious cosmographers and acquiring an education that would lead him to be considered one of the finest scientists in Europe' (Santo-Tomas, p.50). Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas. The Refracted Muse. University of Chicago Press, 2017; Goldsmith G-61; Palau 98620.
Quarto (200 x 135mm). Woodcuts of instruments in the text, woodcut device, initials, head-and tailpieces (some waterstaining heavier in first few quires, 3 leaves with old paper applied to margins obscuring marginal annotations). Contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, slightly soiled). Provenance: a few marginal annotations – blank entries in table on R8 completed in MS – early Spanish inscription on endpapers.
First edition of a rare scientific work by Garcia de Cespedes, Royal Cosmographer to Felipe III. It includes the most comprehensive description of hydraulics to have been published in Spain. The author 'had spent seven years in the Portuguese Court, learning from prestigious cosmographers and acquiring an education that would lead him to be considered one of the finest scientists in Europe' (Santo-Tomas, p.50). Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas. The Refracted Muse. University of Chicago Press, 2017; Goldsmith G-61; Palau 98620.
Quarto (200 x 135mm). Woodcuts of instruments in the text, woodcut device, initials, head-and tailpieces (some waterstaining heavier in first few quires, 3 leaves with old paper applied to margins obscuring marginal annotations). Contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, slightly soiled). Provenance: a few marginal annotations – blank entries in table on R8 completed in MS – early Spanish inscription on endpapers.
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