Oronce Fine

Lot 788: FINÉ, ORONCE.

Name: FINÉ, ORONCE.
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: wq21yzujsr

Est: £1,500 GBP - £2,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 04, 2004

Item Overview

Description

De solaribus horologiis & quadrantibus, libri quatuor. Paris: [Bernard Prévost? for] G. Cavellat, [1560]

Condition Note: 4to (225 x 170mm.), [16], 223, [1]pp., illustration: folding woodcut at p. 204, numerous woodcuts in text, criblé initials, binding: sixteenth-century English vellum, printed guards and pastedowns

Artist or Maker

Oronce Fine

Literature

Mortimer, Harvard French 232

Provenance

Sir Thomas Knyvett (c. 1539-1618) with pressmark at end, "3: class: sinistr:-- 130" (see D. McKitterick, The Library of Sir Thomas Knyvett (1978), no. 845)

Notes

A very handsome copy from the library of Sir Thomas Knyvett. The work, which is taken from the Protomathesis, was edited after Finé's death by his son Jean. The dedication is dated 1560.

Auction Details

The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part IV: Science D-H

Sotheby's

November 04, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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