RAMELLI, Agostino.

Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine...

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composte in lingua Italiana et Francese. Engraved title within architectural border, full-page port. of the author signed with the monogram of Léonard Gualtier on verso of title, 194 engravings in the text of which 20 are double-page & the remainder full-page. Each page of text enclosed by a border of type ornaments. 16 p.l., 338 pp. Folio, 18th-cent half-sheep & patterned boards (occasional light browning), spine gilt, green leather lettering piece on spine. Paris: "In Casa del'autore," 1588. First edition, and a very fine and fresh copy, of The Various and Ingenious Machines of Ramelli (c. 1531-90), one of the most beautiful as well as one of the earliest and most important pictorial technical works to be printed. This book contains depictions of "pumps, fountains, derricks, bridges, mills, hydraulic machinery, cannon and arquebuses, cranes and pneumatic devices. For industrial enterprises there are shown logging mills, metal-working machines, continuous-bucket conveyors, looms for spinning and weaving, bellows, saws and foundry equipment...the engravings are among the best in technological illustration."­Dibner, Heralds of Science, 173. A fine copy of an extremely influential work. The impressions of the plates are very rich and dark. Bookplate of Carl Sahlin. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. Mortimer 452.

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