LEYBOURN, William (1626-1700?). Dialing: Plain, Concave, Convex, Projective, Reflective, Refractive. Shewing, how to make all such Dials, and to adorn them with all Useful Furniture, relating to the Course of the Sun . London: for Awnsham Churchill, 1682. 2° (305 x 197mm). Engraved portrait by and after White and 23 plates, many folding (lacks the last leaf, probably blank, portrait mounted, portrait and plates a little browned and spotted). Contemporary calf, panels of spine ruled in gilt, sides ruled in blind (covers detached). Provenance : Le Canet (near contemporary signature on title) - John Fawely, 1785 (signature on title and a few marginalia) -- From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Leybourn's exhaustive work on sun-dials. Wing L1912.
LEYBOURN, William (1626-1700?). Dialing: Plain, Concave, Convex, Projective, Reflective, Refractive. Shewing, how to make all such Dials, and to adorn them with all Useful Furniture, relating to the Course of the Sun . London: for Awnsham Churchill, 1682. 2° (305 x 197mm). Engraved portrait by and after White and 23 plates, many folding (lacks the last leaf, probably blank, portrait mounted, portrait and plates a little browned and spotted). Contemporary calf, panels of spine ruled in gilt, sides ruled in blind (covers detached). Provenance : Le Canet (near contemporary signature on title) - John Fawely, 1785 (signature on title and a few marginalia) -- From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Leybourn's exhaustive work on sun-dials. Wing L1912.
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