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ZAHN, Johann (1641-1707). Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive telescopium. Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Lochner, 1702.
2° (325 x 205mm). Additional engraved title, printed title in red and black, engraved portrait, 7 engraved plates (4 folding and 3 double-page), 7 double-page tables, engraved or woodcut illustrations, including 26 full-page. (First folding plate with long but clean tear along fold, light browning and spotting throughout.) 20th-century half vellum. Provenance: Monastery Brombach (manuscript inscription at foot of engraved title and on printed title) – Christoph Johannes Franciscus Chresta (ownership inscription on endpaper, dated 1829) -- ‘Fürstlich Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg’sche Hofbibliothek Kleinheubach’ (library stamp at foot of engraved title and label on pastedown).
Second edition of Zahn’s treatise on the microscope and the telescope. The work is particularly valuable for its illustrations of both simple and compound microscopes of the period, including the type of compound instrument used by Robert Hooke. It contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses. Cf. first edition: Garrison and Morton 263: 'includes the first complete history of early microscopes'; NLM/Krivatsy 13208; Norman 2278.
2° (325 x 205mm). Additional engraved title, printed title in red and black, engraved portrait, 7 engraved plates (4 folding and 3 double-page), 7 double-page tables, engraved or woodcut illustrations, including 26 full-page. (First folding plate with long but clean tear along fold, light browning and spotting throughout.) 20th-century half vellum. Provenance: Monastery Brombach (manuscript inscription at foot of engraved title and on printed title) – Christoph Johannes Franciscus Chresta (ownership inscription on endpaper, dated 1829) -- ‘Fürstlich Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg’sche Hofbibliothek Kleinheubach’ (library stamp at foot of engraved title and label on pastedown).
Second edition of Zahn’s treatise on the microscope and the telescope. The work is particularly valuable for its illustrations of both simple and compound microscopes of the period, including the type of compound instrument used by Robert Hooke. It contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses. Cf. first edition: Garrison and Morton 263: 'includes the first complete history of early microscopes'; NLM/Krivatsy 13208; Norman 2278.
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