Author
Hofmann, Heinrich, 1576-1652
Title
De octantis instrumenti mathematici novi : geodætis, astronomis, geographis, nautis, architectis, militibus, & fodinarum præfectis perquam utilis & accommodati usu & utilitate libellus, / ab authore Henrico Hofmanno Jenensi, mathematum in illustri Academia Marpurensi professore publico, conscriptus ac boni publici causâ in lucem datus..
Imprint
Jenæ, : Typis Hæredum Lippoldianorum., Anno M. DCXII. [1612]
Physical description
[80] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm (4to)
Note
Title in decorative woodcut border.
Note
Signatures: A-K⁴.
Note
Engraved plate signed: "Georg Haÿer pictor Wratisl: sculpsit Ao 1604.".
Note
Woodcut head-pieces and initials.
Note
With wooduct illustrations and diagrams throughout the text.
Citation/references note
BL German, 1601-1700, H1464
Citation/references note
CLC, H767
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
17th-century laced-case parchment; stiffened with paper boards; sewn on four tawed leather supports; fore-edge extensions; five narrow pieces of parchment manuscript waste used as spine linings; titles of volume contents written in ink on fore-edge; evidence of two pairs of ties at fore-edge; evidence of chain-plate on lower cover; later leather spine label with title (partially missing); date in ink at tail of spine: 1617.
Copy-specific note
Bound in a volume of mostly scientific works.
Subject
Scientific apparatus and instruments Early works to 1800.
Subject
Science Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hayer, Georg, 1559-1614 engraver.
Added entry--name
Hæredes Lippoldianorum printer.
Added entry--place
Germany Jena.
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