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30 Sundials Vintage Books for Download

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Sundials collection contents

A book of sundial mottoes (1903) Hyatt 
A New Method of Constructing Sun-Dials, for Any Given Latitude, without the Assistance of Dialing Scales or Logarithmic Calculations. By  Ferguson, 1767
A printers' sun dial, a short description of the dial recently placed in the garden of the Country Life Press (1913) Gliss
Arte gnomonica (Columbini) 1700
Book of old sundials (1922) Hogg
Book of sun-dials 1900 Gatty
Circular of the Bureau of Standards no. 402: sundials 1933 Gould
Dialling, plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive. Shewing, how to make all such dials 1700 Leybourn
Early English lead garden & pool figures, sundials, bird baths & fountains, wrought-iron gates, benches & chairs (1925)
Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy and dialing 1806 Ferguson
Garden Ornaments 1916 Northend
Gnomonique, ou traité théorique et pratique de la construction des cadrans solaires(1922) Bigourdan
Helio-tropes, or, New Posies for Sundials (1904) Parmenter
Horologium Achaz, Christophorus Schissler, artifex (1895) Sasche
La gnomonique pratique, ou L'art de tracer les cadrans solaires avec la plus grande précision 1780 
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, and astronomy (1839)
Manuscript commonplace book, largely taken up with rules for constructing sundials, ca. (1745) Blake
Mechanick dialling, or, The new art of shadows 1769
Nova praxis construendi circinum proportionalem horographicum (1695) Saher
On a new self-registering sun-dial (1857) Campbell
Practical talks by an astronomer (1902)
Primitive sun dials or scratch dials, containing a list of those in Somerset (1917) Ethelbert
Select mechanical exercises shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles (1773) Ferguson
SUNDIALS HOW TO KNOW USE AND MAKE THEM (1938) Myall
Sundials Roses of yesterday, garden delights displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902) Morse
The Book of Sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty - now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century  v. 5, p. 357-514 1887 (Macgibbon)
The garden and its accessories 1907 Underwood
The Timepiece of Shadows - a history of the sun dial (1895) Spackman
Ye Sundial Booke (1914) Henslow