Lot 153
HOROLOGY, 3 VOLUMES, COMPRISING
BERTHOUD, FERDINAND
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
Description
L'Art de Conduire et de Régler les Pendules et les Montes. Paris, chez l'auteur & Michel Lambert, 1759. First edition, 16mo, 4 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt, bookplate of Léon Leroy, a little worn, upper joint split, [Berlin Cat. 1757]; Sainte Marie Magdeleine, Pierre de. Traitté d'horlogiographie, contentant plusieurs manieres de construire sur toutes surfaces toutes sortes de lignes horaires, & autres cercles de la Sphere. Lyon: François Demasso, 1674. 8vo, [xii], 324pp., additional engraved title and 80 engraved plates (plates numbered to 72, + plates 18a, b, c, d, 31a and 52a, b, c), 19th century quarter vellum, slightly rubbed and soiled, a few gatherings browned, fore-margin of a few plates cut close sometimes shaving a plate number or illustration; Trotta, Battista Nuovo Horologio Notturno per mezzo delle Stelle. Naples: Luc' Antonion di Fusco, 1651. 8vo, 104pp., later vellum, marginal repairs to wormholes