Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
- Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600.
- Date:
- 1588
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A Parigi : In casa del'autore ..., 1588.
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16 unnumbered pages, 338 leaves : engr. illustrations, engr. title page with portrait on verso, woodcut borders & ornaments ; (folio)
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Text alternately in Italian (italic letter) and French (roman letter)
Signatures: *⁸2*⁸a-s⁸t⁶u-z⁸A-D⁸E-K(4)(2), L⁶M-Q(4)(2), R-X⁸Y⁴Z²2A²2B⁸2C-2F*(4)(2),2G-2K*(6)(2)
Engraved title; verso of t.p. is engraved port. of Ramelli
Each page of text and plates within ornamental type frame; initials, corner- and tail-pieces
There are 194 plates (numbered 195 but 148 and 149 are combined as one illustration)
For a description of this book see: The various and ingenious machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588), translated from the Italian and French with a biographic study of the author by Martha Teach Gnudi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
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Adams R52
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/D/5323