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FURTENBACH, Joseph (1591-1667). Mannhaffter Kunst-Spiegel oder Continuatio, und Fortsetzung allerhand Mathematisch- und Mechanisch- hochnutzlich- ... freyen Künsten . Augsburg: J. Schultes for the author, 1663. A very fine, presentation copy of the first edition of Furtenbach’s compendium of mathematical and mechanical arts. Among the topics he treats are geometry, geography, astronomy, navigation, fireworks, water, and perspective. An active practicing architect at Ulm (it was thanks to his fortification designs that Ulm was never conquered in the Thirty Years’ War), Furtenbach also devotes chapters to military, civil, naval and island architecture. VD-17 calls for a final leaf but the final quire is complete as B 2 , ending with p.292, as also in the digitized copies at Dresden and Heidelberg. Berlin Kat. 1779; Wellcome III, 77; Houzeau/Lanc. 9312 (misdated 1633); Lotz 30 und 130; VD-17 3:312568C. Folio (310 x 200mm). First quire printed in red and black, engraved portrait after A. Schuch by M. Kuesell, and 33 folding or double-page plates numbered 1-11, 11½, 12-32, two leaves of autograph manuscript bound in, one an explanation of symbols used in the chapter on artillery, the other the author’s presentation leaf. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, flat spine with German imperial arms supralibros, green ribbon fore-edge ties, blue edges (gilt oxidized). Provenance : presentation inscription from Furtenbach to the Protestant library at Leutkirch, his birthplace (Leutkirch arms as an imperial city on spine); very occasional contemporary manuscript text correction.