Le Diverse et Artifiose Machine... Nelle quali si contengono varii et industriosi Movimenti, degni di Grandissima Speculatione, per cavarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d’operatione

by Agostino Ramelli

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Folio 20.5 x 31.5 cm , 16 , 338 ff., including engraved t.-p., engraved portrait of author on verso and 194 numbered 195 full and double-page illustrations of machines. Bound in 18th-century French tree calf, rebacked, later endpapers, covers with gilt border of interlocking circles, spine in eight compartments, with alternating motifs of suns and densely tooled rows of stars, rather in the style of Derôme, with red morocco title label gilt. Mistakenly dated 1680, after ownership

• Binding: Leather

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