ShadowCatcher volume 5

[Fred Sawyer]

If you have been considering the 5th volume in NASS' ShadowCatcher series of hardbound facsimile reprints of rare books on dialing, don't forget that the absolute deadline for orders to be received and paid for is December 1.  See the September issue of The Compendium for more info, or contact me off-list.   The 5th volume is Thomas Strode's 1688 A NEW AND EASIE METHOD TO THE ART OF DYALLING.  CONTAINING  I. All Horizontal Dyals, all Upright Dyals, Reflecting Dyals, Dyals without Centres, Nocturnal Dyals, Upright Declining Dyals, without knowing the Declination of the Plane.  II.  The most Natural and Easie Way of Describing the Curve-Lines of the Suns Declination on any Plane.  The like never before Published.  By Thomas Strode, Esq; of Maperton in the County of Somerset.  LONDON.  Printed, by H.C. for J. Taylor, at the Ship, and T. Newborough, at the Ball, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, MDCLXXXVIII.    Fred Sawyer