BOECKLER, Georg Andreas. Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aqvarias, alatas, ivmentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures et diversas molas. Translated from German by Heinrich Schmitz. Cologne: Paul Principis, 1662. 2° (352 x 216mm). Engraved additional title by V. Sommer, and 154 engraved plates, some signed 'B.S.,' 'Balth. Schw.,' or 'E.K.,' all after Boeckler. (Additional title lightly spotted, and with short clean tears affecting image at right hand margin, title spotted and a little frayed, some text leaves heavily browned, C3 misbound before C4, some browning of plates, plate 11 bound in upside down, tear through plate 13 with old repair on verso, plates 104 and 147 torn at upper blank margin, plate 125 slightly soiled.) Contemporaray vellum, manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges with title repeated in a contemporary hand on lower edge (slightly bowed). FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of this display of mechanical art with plates showing the construction of gigantic mill wheels and hydraulic machinery to be operated not only by water or wind, but weights, horse power or human energy. The half-title retains the imprint of Paul Fürst, Nuremberg. The original edition, issued in German at Nuremberg the year before, also appeared under the Latin title Theatrum machinarum novum , but with a German subtitle, Schauplatz der mechanischen Kunsten . Brunet I, 1024; Graesse II, p. 459.
BOECKLER, Georg Andreas. Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aqvarias, alatas, ivmentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures et diversas molas. Translated from German by Heinrich Schmitz. Cologne: Paul Principis, 1662. 2° (352 x 216mm). Engraved additional title by V. Sommer, and 154 engraved plates, some signed 'B.S.,' 'Balth. Schw.,' or 'E.K.,' all after Boeckler. (Additional title lightly spotted, and with short clean tears affecting image at right hand margin, title spotted and a little frayed, some text leaves heavily browned, C3 misbound before C4, some browning of plates, plate 11 bound in upside down, tear through plate 13 with old repair on verso, plates 104 and 147 torn at upper blank margin, plate 125 slightly soiled.) Contemporaray vellum, manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges with title repeated in a contemporary hand on lower edge (slightly bowed). FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of this display of mechanical art with plates showing the construction of gigantic mill wheels and hydraulic machinery to be operated not only by water or wind, but weights, horse power or human energy. The half-title retains the imprint of Paul Fürst, Nuremberg. The original edition, issued in German at Nuremberg the year before, also appeared under the Latin title Theatrum machinarum novum , but with a German subtitle, Schauplatz der mechanischen Kunsten . Brunet I, 1024; Graesse II, p. 459.
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