Published by Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 031075321X ISBN 13: 9780310753216
Seller: Aldersgate Books Inc., Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VERY GOOD. 1994. First printing. Trade paperback. 376pp. Index. VERY GOOD. Pages clean. Binding sound. Minor wear to extremities.
Language: English
Published by Houlson & Wright, London UK, 1860
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 15.23
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 370 pages. Maroon binding, ornate embossing to boards, gilt titles to front, discolouring to upper hinge-ends especailly to rear due to much handling, spine very darkened. Fraying to spine-ends and corners./ Page-edges darkened, blotching to title-pages. Text sound and reasonably clean.
HAMILTON, John. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. [9], 400, [36] pp. Illustrated with 130 engraved folding plates. Folio, 395 x 258 mm, bound in modern calf over boards. London: printed for the author by W. Bowyer, 1738. Rare First Edition of this important work on perspective by John Hamilton. His work was of major importance for the mathematical theories of perspective and it even appears that Turner consulted the book around 1809 (Tate Gallery, Diagrams of Harmonic Proportions, after John Hamilton). OCLC lists only the Yale copy in the US. Scattered insignificant marginal worming. From the library of Blackheath Proprietary School, with occasional unobtrusive stamps.