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Lot 417

Bion, Nicolas. 1652-1733.
L'Usage des Globes Celestes et Terrestres et des Spheres. Amsterdam: Francois Halma, 1700.

5 December 2018, 14:00 EST
New York

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Bion, Nicolas. 1652-1733.

L'Usage des Globes Celestes et Terrestres et des Spheres. Amsterdam: Francois Halma, 1700.
4to (215 x 170 mm). Title printed in red and black with colored vignette, head-piece and initial on opening page, double-page engraved celestial chart, 3 single page diagrams of globes, and 10 folding plates (of 11), all colored in a contemporary hand, one heightened in gold. Title lightly browned and laid down on paper, small hole at lower margin, preliminary leaf *4 misbound after title page, some light browning. Modern calf bound to style; Together with an 8vo printing of the same work, Paris, 1799.

A fine hand-colored wide-margined copy of Bion's classic work on globes. Bion was the Royal Geographer and Instrument maker to the French King.

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