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SCHOTT, Gasper. Organum mathematicum libris IX. Würzburg: Jobst Hertz for Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolfgang the younger, 1668.
4o (192 x 166 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved portraits of Johann Casper (the dedicatee) and Carl Joseph, Archduke of Austria, engraved additional title and 90 engraved plates or tables, including 43 folding (some browning); contemporary calf (worn).
FIRST EDITION with the errata at end. Apart from the arithmetical section, which contains the author's improvement of Napier's Bones, the work contains parts on dialling, astronomy, astrology, cryptography, and music. Sommervogel VII, p. 911; Sotheran, First Supplement 1774.
4o (192 x 166 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved portraits of Johann Casper (the dedicatee) and Carl Joseph, Archduke of Austria, engraved additional title and 90 engraved plates or tables, including 43 folding (some browning); contemporary calf (worn).
FIRST EDITION with the errata at end. Apart from the arithmetical section, which contains the author's improvement of Napier's Bones, the work contains parts on dialling, astronomy, astrology, cryptography, and music. Sommervogel VII, p. 911; Sotheran, First Supplement 1774.