GLOBE CELESTE. GLOBE TERESTRE.: Planche 37. Pag.260 and Planche 20. Pag. 145
by BION, Nicolas
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About This Item
L'Usage des Globes, celeste et terrestre et des Spheres. Paris., 1728. Attractive pair of prints showing a celestial and a terrestrial globe. Nicolas Bion was a French mathematician and maker of globes and scientific instruments. Author of two important works : L'Usage des globes celestes et terrestres, et des spheres, suivant les différents systèmes du monde [Paris 1699] and Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématiques [Paris 1709]. Both works proved highly popular and were translated into a number of other European languages. Size: 90 x 150 mm each. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Very good condition; rusty spot outside the border of the celestial print and within the terrestrial globe.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58287
- Title
- GLOBE CELESTE. GLOBE TERESTRE.
- Author
- BION, Nicolas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- L'Usage des Globes, celeste et terrestre et des Spheres. Paris.
- Date Published
- 1728
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