Horologiographia
By: post priorem aeditionem per Sebast. Mvnstervm recognita, & plurimum aucta atq[ue] locupletata ; adiectis multis nouis descriptionibus & figuris, in plano, concauo, conuexo, erecta superficie &c
Contributors: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: Excvdebat Henricvs Petrvs
Published: 1533
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Horology; Early works to 1800; Sundials
Work titles: Compositio horologiorum
Notes: Date from colophon.

Heinrich Petri's 1st ed. appeared in 1531 under title: Compositio horologiorum.

Numerous woodcut ill. and diagrams. The cylindrical sundial (p. [269]), the nocturnal on p. [294], and perhaps the Schema concaui (p. 278) are after Hans Holbein. See Hollstein.

Petri's device of hammer striking fire from a rock on last p.; see P. Heitz, Basler Büchermarken, no. 73. It is attributed to Hans Holbein; see Hollstein's German engravings, LV, 98.

Signatures: a-g⁴ A-Z⁴ aa-tt⁴.

Includes index, c1r-g4r.

Hollstein, F.W.H.  German engravings, XIV-A 88b-d, 92a-l