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An Unusually Fine Example Of An
Early American Backstaff
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HAM, James. Backstaff, fruitwood frame with two boxwood arcs. 1759.
Rare, early American-made back-staff, one of the principle
instruments of navigation throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
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THE PROPORTIONAL COMPASS COMES TO FRANCE
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HENRION, D.. Usage du compas de Proportion. Paris, Michel Daniel, 1618.
Very rare first edition of this illustrated work on the proportional compass, probably the first such work published in France, and indisputably the book to popularize use of the instrument in that country.
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LASTEYRIE [DU SAILLANT], Charles Philibert, Comte de. Typographie economique, ou, L’arte de l’imprimerie mis à la portée de tous, et applicable aux différens besoins sociaux. Paris, Chez l’auteur [on wrappers] or Chez E. Duverger [verso of f. 1], 1837.
Rare first and only edition. Lasteyrie proposes a method of operating a small, low-cost printing press to disseminate information and news in small towns.
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Broadside Sales Catalogue
Of Artists’ Drawing & Optical Instruments
Including Galileo's Sector
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LUSVERG[H], Domenico. Notta delli Stromenti Piu Generali. n.p. [but Rome?], [c. 1698].
Extremely rare survival of an illustrated and priced broadside sales catalogue advertising the diverse scientific and drawing instruments manufactured by Domenico Lusvergh in Rome.
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Improving on Napier
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MORLAND, [Sir Samuel]. The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments. London, Moses Pitt, 1673.
First edition of the first book on a calculator written in English, and the first separate work on the subject after Napier's Rabdologiae.
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