MALOMBRA Giuseppe. Pratica universale facilissima, et breve di misurare con la vista. Firenze, Ciotti, 1630.

4° mm. 230 x 170, p. [24], 212, [6] and one copper plate. Nice engraved Title page, repeated at p. 165; and LXI illustrations within the text. Later binding in half calf.

Work very rare of the mathematician and surveyor from Cremona; very interesting for the copper figures in the text that illustrate various measuring operations, animated by human figures on landscape backgrounds. The work is divided into two parts, the first dedicated to measuring operations on the ground, the second dedicated to the construction of topographic plants.

Riccardi, I / 76: "Rare ... In Part I deals with the measures of distances and heights, and there are the first attempts on the use of distance meters; in II deals with the extent of surface, and the reliefs and drawings of fortifications. Omitted from Marini and D'Ayala". Zeitlinger, B.C.M., n. 2790.

A repair in the top of the title page and a burn in the upper margin of pp. 177-78, but good example. for the rest. [3858] Missing a leaf at the end(Errata).