WITH AUTHOR*S DEDICATION TO THE DANISH MINISTER OF WAR
SALMOIRAGHI, ANGELO.
Notice sur un Télémètre destiné au Service de L'Artillerie pour la Défense des Cotes.
Milan, Chez L'Auteur, 1881.
8vo. In ccontemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to top of front board. Paper-label pasted on to lower part of spine. Two small paper-labels pasted on to lower part of front free end-paper. Two stamps to title-page. With author's presentation-inscription to the Danish Minister of War: "A' Son Excellence / Le Ministre de la Guerre / de C M Roi / Hommage de l'Auteur". Very light miscoloured to lower margin, otherwise a fine copy. 17 pp. + 1 folded plate.
Rare first edition of Salmoiraghi's work on Rangefinders (Télémétre). Angelo Salmoiraghi was a student of Ignaz Peter Paul Porro (1801-75) who in the 1860s in Turin opened the "Officina Filotecnica" (workshop and school of optics, instrument building and fine mechanics). Salmoiraghi bought his teacher's Milan-based "Società Filotechnica" and renamed it to "Filotecnica Salmoiraghi". The company still exists today under the name of "Salmoiraghi & Viganò".
Order-nr.: 59826
DKK 3.500,00