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HENRION, Didier (c.1580-c.1640). Briefve explication de l'usage de l'astrolabe. Paris: [n.p.] 1620.
4° (225 x 172mm). 2 Engraved folding plates of an astrolabe and armillary sphere, woodcut diagrams, woodcut device on title. (Without final blank, some occasional spotting and light soiling.) Modern red calf (lightly scuffed). Provenance: early annotations.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of this treatise by Didier Henrion on the astrolabe which was meant to accompany the real instrument. Not in standard bibliographies and no copy recorded on ABPC/RBH. Collating as the digital copy on Gallica (also without final blank) but with a dedication to Nicolas de Bailleul on *1 inserted after the title.
4° (225 x 172mm). 2 Engraved folding plates of an astrolabe and armillary sphere, woodcut diagrams, woodcut device on title. (Without final blank, some occasional spotting and light soiling.) Modern red calf (lightly scuffed). Provenance: early annotations.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of this treatise by Didier Henrion on the astrolabe which was meant to accompany the real instrument. Not in standard bibliographies and no copy recorded on ABPC/RBH. Collating as the digital copy on Gallica (also without final blank) but with a dedication to Nicolas de Bailleul on *1 inserted after the title.
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