[KEILL, J.],

Institutions Astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d'Astronomie, Pour servir d'introduction à la Physique Céleste, & á la Science des Longitudes, Avec de nouvelles Tables d'Équation corrigées; et particulierement les Tables du Soleil, de la Lune & des Satellites; Précedées d'un Essai sur l'Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne.

Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1746, 4to., full marbled leather binding with ribbed and gold tooled spine, titleplate on spine, red coloured edges, marbled endpapers, the original reading ribbon still in place, the edges of the binding show faded traces of goldttooling, [6]+64+660 pp., corners of the covers are worn, a tear in some pages, a few wormholes in the first section, some foxing, some (partly browned pages), but otherwise the book is in good condition with a solid construction and beautiful fold out engravings. Decorative woodcut vignette on the titlepage, along with some woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, with 15 fold out plates (Dheulland sculp.) and several tables, for instance concerning the fases of the moon. There are some contemporary notes on the flyleaf, on the titlepage and on a textpage.

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Book number: 66882

Catalogue: Astronomy Science

Soeten, Mattheus

Algemeene manier tot het maaken van zonnewysers op allerley effen vlakken. Zynde heel klaar te verstaan en ligt te doen, voor alle persoonen die met een passer gewoon zyn om te gaan, als stierluyden, timmerluyden, steenhouwers, en meer andere bouw- en handwerkslieden, sonder eenig onderwys of kennisse van de meet- en sterrekonst, dan alleen dit boekje van nooden te hebben. Amsterdam, Johannes Loots, 171 [=1710].

Full vellum with some damage to the corners. Else a good copy with a 19th-century ownership mark by J.F. Schellens (1820). 8°, pag.: [8] 114 [6]. With 26 folded engraved plates. Mattheus Soeten worked as a teacher in Amsterdam, combining mathematics and astronomy. From 1709 until 1743 he was appointed at the Atheneum in Amsterdam, as lector in mathematics. In 1702 he published his Medulla algebræ, of 't merg der stel-konst (Amsterdam, J. ten Hoorn, 1702), as an introduction in mathematics for young students. The present manual on sundials was presumably published for the first time in 1708. The online NCC also mentions an edition published in 1712. Soeten dedicated his book to Dirk Bas, burgomaster of Amsterdam. Johannes Loots was active in Amsterdam between 1696 and 1721 as a publisher of books on mathematics, geometry, astronomy and navigation.
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Book number: 24748

Catalogue: Astronomy Clocks Science dials