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With numerous engraved plates
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François Joseph Böhm:

Description nouvelle de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg, et de sa fameuse Tour, contenant ce qui s'y est passé depuis sa construction, avec tout ce qu'il y a de remarquable au dedans & au dehors de cette édifice. Avec des figures en taille-douce. […] Seconde édition.

Strasbourg, Simon Kürsner, 1743. 8vo. 14,5 x 9,5 cms. [8] + 140 pp. + 10 engraved plates (5 of which folding); one reproduces the astronomical clock.

Later half morocco, worn, bookplate of Stefan Andersson, blue stamp of B & Å Falk. Rather narrow margins, slight creasing and a few short tears to inner margins of a few plates.

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Dom Pierre de Sainte Marie Magdeleine:

Traitté d’horlogiographie, contenant plusieurs manières de construire, sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires & autres cercles de la sphère.

Paris, Jean Dupuis, 1665. 8vo. 16 x 10 cms. [16] pp. incl. engraved title + pp. 1-80, 101-260, 259-314 (pagination irregular) + 72 engraved plates.

Contemporary worn calf, damage to head and foot of spine, bookplate of Stefan Anderson, blue stamp of B & Å Falk. Slight occasional darkening or finger-soiling of text, plate 36 with an unobtrusive stain which only very slightly affects two more plates.

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Provenance

Åke Falk Urhandel, Nybrogatan 5, Stockholm

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