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BULLET, Pierre.- Traité de l'usage du pantomè...
Currency:EUR
Category:Everything Else / Other
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Estimated At:600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR
NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER)
0.00EUR+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Mar 29 @ 10:30UTC+1
BULLET, Pierre.- Traité de l'usage du pantomètre, instrument géométrique, propre à prendre toutes sortes d'angles, mezurer [sic] les distances accessibles & inaccessibles, arpenter & diviser toutes sortes de figures, &c. Paris, André Pralard, (de l'impr. de la Vve Antoine Chrestien), 1675. In-12° : [22 dont front.]-187-[5] pp. Rel. de l'époque : pleine basane, dos fleuronné doré à nerfs (lég. épidermures, coins émoussés, manque de peau au plat inf...).
Edition originale et unique illustrée d'un frontispice, des armoiries du dédicataire au verso du titre et de 25 cuivres à pleine page. Ne trouvant pas d'instrument scientifique propre à le servir pour l'établissement de son plan de Paris, Bullet se chargea d'inventer un instrument ad hoc : le pantomètre.
Provenance : Pierre François Daussée, "arpenteur Royal en la maitrise des Eaux et forest de Dole", 27 sept. 1713 (mention ms.); Alain Brieux (étiq. de librairie). 600 Euros
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