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DANFRIE, Philippe (ca. 1531-1606)

Lot 10
29.10.2024 14:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 4 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 10 | DANFRIE, Philippe (ca. 1531-1606)
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€ 4 000 – 6 000
DANFRIE, Philippe (ca. 1531-1606)
Declaration de l'usage du graphometre, par la pratique duquel l'on peut mesurer toutes distances des choses de remarque... et ce sans règle d'arithmétique. Paris : chez l'auteur, 1597.

Première et unique édition de cet ouvrage important, richement illustré. L'édition est entièrement composée en caractères de civilité, spécialement gravés par Philippe Danfrie, graveur général des monnaies de France et numismate. Danfrie est à la fois l'inventeur du graphomètre, l'illustrateur et le graveur des planches du livre. Le graphomètre devait rester le mesureur d'angle des arpenteurs jusqu'au début du XXe siècle.
USTC 30443 ; Brunet, II, col. 485 ; Brun, Le livre illustré de la Renaissance, 165. Mortimer, Harvard cat. 163 ; Daumas, Instruments scientifiques, 24.

Petit in-4 (198 x 124 mm). Signatures : A-M O-R4. 14 gravures sur cuivre (dont 11 à pleine page) et 4 gravures sur bois. Le privilège (R4r) est en second état. Reliure du XVIIIe siècle : basane brune, dos orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. (mouillures dans l'ensemble du volume ; mors usés, coins frottés).
Provenance : au verso du titre, indication manuscrite contemporaine de l'édition : "Japartient a Marshe Jacques Boissay". Cette mention est entourée de notes d'une autre main, d'ordre scientifique. Au verso du dernier feuillet, deux mains anciennes différentes ont indiqué : "Trigomètre" -- sur le contreplat, étiquette du libraire Bouchard, à Metz. -- Enfin, au verso de la dernière garde, annotation de provenance datée 1864.

First and only edition, and one of only two books printed with these civilité types. An instrument maker, fine metal worker, and engraver (including of bookbinding tools), Danfrie was appointed "graveur général des monnaies de France" in 1582. He was the second person to create a civilité font, following Robert Granjon in Lyon, Danfrie himself was the author of this work describing an instrument he invented for measuring angles.
Artist:Philippe Danfrie (1532 - 1606)
Place of origin:France
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