Item #002975 Instrument Buch. Peter APIAN.
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Instrument Buch.

Ingolstadt: Cum gratia & privilegio caefareo ad triginta annos [P. Apianus], 1533.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002975

Folio (285 x 192 mm). 5, 54 unnumbered leaves, including 5 (of 9) supplementary woodcut leaves bound after title. Gothic types. Signatures: pi1 A4 chi1 B-N4. Title-printed in red and black with the imprint added in red and with large woodcut vignette, full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee on title verso, 84 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (including unassembled volvelle parts), depicting quadrants and other observational instruments, their use, and constellations. Leaf chi1 bound before A1. Bound in later card-boards, spine titled in manuscript and with shelf-mark paper label (extremities rubbed and slightly chipped, boards soiled and stained, corners bumped), red-sprinkled edges. Text very little browned, occasional minor spotting, fore-margin trimmed close touching four woodcut illustrations and saving two a few millimeters, mostly light waterstaining to lower margin of about 20 leaves, small holes near lower corner of final two leaves. ----

BMC German 37; Honeyman 1:113; Houzeau & Lancaster 2398; LC/Rosenwald 460; Stillwell Science 812; Van Ortroy 104. FIRST EDITION, WITH 5 VERY RARE SUPPLEMENTARY WOODCUT LEAVES. "Apian wrote on a wide range of scholarly and scientific topics. He designed a number of ingenious astronomical instruments for measuring celestial angles -, mostly combinations of graduated scales and travelling sights on the usual lines of the times" (Wolf, History of Science). The book is richly illustrated with a striking title woodcut, the arms of the Duke of Loubenberg to whom the volume is dedicated, and a great number of illustrations in the text, the work of H. Brosamer and M. Ostendorfer. They show instruments, charts, astronomical designs, methods of measuring, etc. Apian, who was professor of mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt, was also active as a printer. His productions, mainly his own works, are done with great care.
Very few copies have survived with all the 5 original woodcut bifolios, making up one blank and 9 printed leaves (in our copy we have 2 bifolio and 1 half bifolio making up 5 leaves only). The explanation for the rarity is disclosed in the headline text of the first bifolium (not present here): that these 5 sheets, which are printed single side only, shall not be bound-in. They are intended for dissection to become part of the instruments that shall be build by the reader. The book was issued in two different editions, one with the 5 extra plates, and one without them.
The lengthy title reads in full: Instrument Buch ... Zum ersten ist darinne begriffen ein newer Quadrant, dardurch Tag und Nacht, bey der Sonnen, Mon, unnd andern Planeten, auch durch ettliche Gestirn, die Stunden und ander nutzung gefunden werden. Zum andern , wie man die höch der Thürn, und anderer gebew, des gleichen die weyt, brayt, und tieffe durch die Spigel und Instrument, messen soll. Zum Dritten, wie man das wasser absehen oder abwegen soll, ob man das in ein Schloss oder Statt füeren möge, und wie man die Brünne suchen soll. Zum Vierden, sindt diey Instrument, die mögen in der gantzen welt bey Tag und bey Nacht gebraucht werden: vnnd haben gar vil und manicherlay breüche, und all geschiecht der Stunden, behalten alle zu gleich jre Latinische nämen. Zum Fünfften, wie man künstlich durch die Finger der Hände die Stund in der Nacht, on alle Instrument erkhennen soll. Zum Letzten, ist darin[n] ein newer Messstab, des gleichen man nendt den Jacobs stab, dardurch auch die höch, brayt, weyt, und tieffe, auff newe art gefunden wirt. - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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