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Theatre des instrumens mathematiques & mechaniques / de Iaques Besson Dauphinois, docte mathematicien ; auec l'interpretation des figures d'iceluy, par François Beroald.

Besson, Jacques (Mathematician), author.; Béroalde de Verville, 1556-1626; Vincent, Barthélemy, active 1568-1593, printer.; Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584, illustrator.; Boyvin, René, approximately 1525-approximately 1598, printmaker.
1579
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Title
Theatre des instrumens mathematiques & mechaniques / de Iaques Besson Dauphinois, docte mathematicien ; auec l'interpretation des figures d'iceluy, par François Beroald.
Created/published
A Lyon : Par Barthelemy Vincent, MDLXXIX [1579]
Description
[40] p., 60 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (engravings) ; 40 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Besson, Jacques (Mathematician), author.
Béroalde de Verville, 1556-1626
Vincent, Barthélemy, active 1568-1593, printer.
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584, illustrator.
Boyvin, René, approximately 1525-approximately 1598, printmaker.
Note
Plates designed by Androuet du Cerceau and others for the first edition, Orleans? 1569?; in this edition, the original engravings 17, 35, 39, & 51 have been replaced by copies engraved by R. Boyvin.

Signatures: A-E⁴.

Title within historiated woodcut border

Plates have Latin captions.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1991. Reign of the Horse (catalog p. 46)
Genre/form
Annotations.
Underscoring.
Place of creation/publication
France -- Lyon.

Call number
156- 871f
Folger-specific note
In early limp vellum; remains of ties; manuscript spine title; manuscript shelfmarks crossed out. Some plates have manuscript descriptive notes in Spanish.

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