HORCHER, Philippus. Libri tres: in quibus primo constructio circini proportionum edocetur, Mainz: Balthasar Lippius, 1605. 4, woodcut vignette on title, numerous woodcut diagrams, one additional folding manuscript table, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, with final blank (?lacking the table, upper margin of title repaired, A2-3 almost detached, lightly browned), disbound.

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HORCHER, Philippus. Libri tres: in quibus primo constructio circini proportionum edocetur, Mainz: Balthasar Lippius, 1605. 4, woodcut vignette on title, numerous woodcut diagrams, one additional folding manuscript table, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, with final blank (?lacking the table, upper margin of title repaired, A2-3 almost detached, lightly browned), disbound.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. "Important as the first published account (one year before Galileo published his own) of Jobst Brgi's compass of proportions. The work is very rare and was quite unknown to Poggendorff who does not even mention the author's name" (Sotheran). Sotheran supplement I, 12, 73.