L'uso della squadra mobile : con la quale per teorica et per pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza altezza, e profundità s'impara à perticare, livellare, et piglare in disegno, le città, paesi, et provincie : il tutto con le sue dimostrationi intagliate in rame / da Ottavis Fabri data in luce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabri, Ottavio, fl. 1598.

Contributor:

De Molte., Former owner.

Tyler, A. C., Former owner.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Surveying--Early works to 1800.

Surveying.

Quadrants (Astronomical instruments).

Genre:

Vellum bindings (Binding) -- 16th century.

Autographs (Provenance)

Physical Description:

[9], 8-57, [3] leaves : ill. ; 22 cm. (4to)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Francesco Barilleti, 1598.

Notes:

Engraved t.p. and illustrations.

Woodcuts: initials, head-, and tailpieces.

The first nine leaves are variously numbered and misnumbered.

Signatures: A3-A6, A2, B-P⁴.

Not in Adams.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: With signatures of DeMolte and A.C. Tyler.

Athenaeum copy: Bound in contemporary vellum with hand-lettered title on spine; in later case.

Cited in:

Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, I, 433.