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[MATHEMATICS]. MUENSTER, Sebastian (1488-1552). Rudimenta Mathematica. Haec in Duos Digeruntur Libros, Quorum prior Geometriae Tradit Principia seu pr

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[MATHEMATICS]. MUENSTER, Sebastian (1488-1552). Rudimenta Mathematica. Haec in Duos Digeruntur Libros, Quorum prior Geometriae Tradit Principia seu prima elementa, una cum rerum & variarum figuraru[m] dimensionibus. Basel: [H. Petrus, 1551]. Folio. Two parts in one. [12], 242, [2] pp. With the blank leaf A6 and the errata leaf, with woodcut illustration meant to correct the cut on p. 145. Lacking the double-page folding woodcut, which is supplied in good facsimile on old paper. Large woodcut on title-page. showing surveyors at work, numerous woodcuts in text, woodcut printer's device on the verso of the errata leaf. Contemporary vellum boards, title in manuscript on spine, later silk ties. FIRST EDITION OF MUENSTER'S FINAL PUBLISHED WORK, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED. 

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Boards soiled and discolored, endpapers browned, some toning to title-page and text, old faded dampstain at inner margin in some sections. Ffep. a bit loose (partially torn near hinge), title-page re-inserted, Overall a good, clean copy. 

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Old armorial library bookplate on fp. (Bibliotec. Collegii Valkend). The text of the first part deals with geometry largely as applied to surveying and ballistics. The second part, starting at p. 69, is an extensive treatise on sundials and horology. Some of the woodcuts are attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. Adams M1939. Zinner 2022. Houzeau and Lancaster 11364. Burmeister, 54. 

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