Novo teatro di machine et edificii per varie et sicure operationi . opera necessaria ad architecti, et a quelli chi di tale studio si dilettano.

Published by adua: Francesco Bertelli,, 1656

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Beautiful engraved title-page, pp. [8, including title-page], 115, [1 blank]; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, text widely engraved throughout with full-page engraved illustrations (one double-sided) by Pietro Bertelli, replacement plate pasted to p.56; lacking 2 leaves, B1 (pp. 9/10) and B3 (pp. 13/14), with B2 and B4 supplied from another copy, but generally a clean and well-preserved copy. (Bound with:) POLENI, GIOVANNI (1683-1761). De castellis per quae derivantur fluviorum aquae habentibus latera convergentia liber. Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1718. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, 1 engraved plate, pp. [6], 65, [3].2 works in one volume, folio (274 x 182mm), eighteenth-century mottled calf, original spine gilt in compartments (backed), red morocco lettering-piece, red edges, all the binding in good condition. Bookplate North Library, Macclesfield. Fourth edition of Zonca's compendium of machines (including a printing press, various grinding devices and a perpetual screw), powered by water, animals or men, was originally published in Padua in 1607. According to Riccardi, this edition has the best impressions of the plates. First edition of Poleni’s work. He wrote on a vast range of subjects, from architecture (producing a great edition of Vitruvius) to astronomy, and held the chair of astronomy and then of physics at the University of Padua. This work is on hydraulics and hydrodynamics. Riccardi I/2ndp., col. 669, 292.

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Title
Novo teatro di machine et edificii per varie et sicure operationi . opera necessaria ad architecti, et a quelli chi di tale studio si dilettano.
Author
ZONCA, VITTORIO
Publisher
adua: Francesco Bertelli,
Publication year
1656
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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