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425000141
Hero Alexandrinus
Heronis Alexandrini spritalium liber, 1680.
Estimate: € 1,200 / $ 1,296
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Hero Alexandrinus
Spiritalium liber, à. F. Commandino Urbinate ex Graeco in Latinum conversus. Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberge 1680.

Hauptwerk zur Pneumatik des griechischen Ingenieurs und Mathematikers Hero Alexandrinus.

Erweiterte Neuediton der ersten Commandino-Ausgabe, erschienen in Urbino 1575. Die Holzschnitt-Illustrationen sind hier seitenverkehrt in Kupferstich wiedergegeben. Mit dem Kommentar am Schluß von J. B. Aleotti. "The mechanical contrivances described are mostly operated by the pressure of the atmosphere .. Although many of the devices are toys or parlor-tricks, that was the fashion of the day, and Hero's matter-of-fact treatment clearly indicates that his interest was in the way they worked" (Robert/Trents). - Unbeschnittenes und tlw. unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar.

EINBAND: Interims-Karton der Zeit. 22,5 : 16,5 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 92 Textkupfern. - KOLLATION: 2 Bll., 120 S. - ZUSTAND: Einband fleckig. Innen gering fleckig. - Insges. sauberes und unbeschnittenes Exemplar. - PROVENIENZ: Vorderer Innendeckel mit Wappen-Exlibris "Exlibris Liechtensteinianis", Privatsammlung Berlin.

LITERATUR: Schweiger I, 136. - Graesse III, 258. - Mottelay S. 520. - Vgl. Roberts/Trent S. 161 (Urbino 1575) und Sotheran 9175f. - Nicht bei Honeyman, Roller/Goodman u. a.

Enlarged version of the edition published in Urbino 1575. Heros' mainwork translated by F. Commandino and with commentary by J. B. Aleotti. With 92 entgravings in text. Interim boards. - Slightly stained. Bindings stained. - Uncut copy.(R)




425000141
Hero Alexandrinus
Heronis Alexandrini spritalium liber, 1680.
Estimate: € 1,200 / $ 1,296
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.

 


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