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Small 8 (164 x 101 mm) 8 nn.ll. including engraved title, 312 pp., 1 blank, leaf, 72 engraved plates including 2 folding. Contemporary brown sheep, spine gilt with raised bands.
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Tardy, 220 ; Polak, 8584.
Reissue of the third edition, "corrigée & augmentée", of this classic and highly successful book.
The author gives advice and instructions on how to make sundials, terrestrial and naval clocks, together with notes on how to cut polyhedrons out of wood or stone ("la méthode de couper, en pierre ou en bois, les corps reguliers & autres Polyëdres, par le cube & par le cylindre").
Binding expertly restored.
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