Lot 778: FINÉ, ORONCE (1494-1555).

Orontii Finei... protomathesis: opus varium etc. (De arithmetica practica lib. IIII.; De geometria lib. II.; De cosmographia... libri V; De solaribus horologiis, et quadrantibus libri IIII). Paris: (G. Morrhe for himself & J. Pierre), 1532

Condition Note:

folio (375 x 240mm.), ff. [8], 207, [1], N6 (fol. 100) blank, last leaf with errata, illustration : title within an elaborate frame, dedication within woodcut frame, large woodcut of sphere etc. on AA8v and O1v, full-page cut of water-clock on X1v and Cc5v, 280 smaller woodcut diagrams and woodcuts, woodcut initials of various sizes and headpieces, large device of Morrhe (Renouard 819) on 207v, binding : eighteenth-century calf-backed marbled boards, a few leaves slightly soiled, slight worming at beginning and end, upper hinge splitting

Mortimer, Harvard French 225; Omont, Morrhe 25; Smith pp.160-162; see A.F. Johnson, 'Oronce Finé as illustrator of books', in Selected Essays (1970), pp. 190-195

first edition. The verses at the end of the preliminaries are by the printer Gerard Morrhe.