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198 - Strada, J.de. Artistic outline of all kinds of water, wind, horse, and hand mills, along with beautiful and useful pumps, as well as other machines for raising water, and also amusing fountains and waterworks, the likes of which have never been seen before: Now augmented with various inventions... Now published and revealed... By Octavium de Strada in Rosberg. Frankfurt, Strada & Kieser, 1629. 18 pages. With engraved title border by M. Merian (printed title mounted) and 99 (instead of 112) double-page copperplate engravings by B. Schwan (31) and Eberhard Kieser (9). 4to. Contemporary parchment binding (closing bands missing).
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Strada, J.de. Artistic outline of all kinds of water, wind, horse, and hand mills, along with beautiful and useful pumps, as well as other machines for raising water, and also amusing fountains and waterworks, the likes of which have never been seen before: Now augmented with various inventions... Now published and revealed... By Octavium de Strada in Rosberg. Frankfurt, Strada & Kieser, 1629. 18 pages. With engraved title border by M. Merian (printed title mounted) and 99 (instead of 112) double-page copperplate engravings by B. Schwan (31) and Eberhard Kieser (9). 4to. Contemporary parchment binding (closing bands missing). Cf. Wüthrich II, 104. - Third edition of this machine book by Jacob de Strada (1507 or 1515-1588), first published by his grandson in 1617/18. - The Italian scholar Strada was a citizen of Nuremberg from 1549, served as administrator of the imperial treasury in Vienna from 1566, and worked for Rudolf II in Prague from 1575. - The descriptions of plates 50-100 are by the Hessian architect Benjamin Bramer (1588-1652). There are at least two printing variants of the descriptions of copperplate engravings 1-50 (single column and, as here, two columns). - Plate 1, plates 101-112, and four leaves of dedication with an engraved coat of arms are missing. - Partly slightly browned and with small tears, numerous white leaves bound at the front and back, pastedowns with old library markings.]
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