Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richt, 1605.
Tractatus Primus [-Secundus -Tertius] Instrumentorum Mechanicorum.
Scarce first Latin edition (following the original German by a year) of one of the most widely diffused Northern European surveying and drafting books, of great interest for the history of scale drawing, architectural drafting, and precision instrumentation, by the Flemish-born polymath and instrument maker Levinus Hulsius (1546-1606). The third..... More