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RAMELLI, Agostino (ca. 1531-after 20 August 1608). Le diverse et artificiose machine ... nellequali si contengono varij et industriosi movimenti ... Composte in lingua Italiana et Francese . Paris: the author, 1588.

Auction 18.03.1998
18.03.1998
Schätzpreis
40.000 $ - 60.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
200.500 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 168

RAMELLI, Agostino (ca. 1531-after 20 August 1608). Le diverse et artificiose machine ... nellequali si contengono varij et industriosi movimenti ... Composte in lingua Italiana et Francese . Paris: the author, 1588.

Auction 18.03.1998
18.03.1998
Schätzpreis
40.000 $ - 60.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
200.500 $
Beschreibung:

RAMELLI, Agostino (ca. 1531-after 20 August 1608). Le diverse et artificiose machine ... nellequali si contengono varij et industriosi movimenti ... Composte in lingua Italiana et Francese . Paris: the author, 1588. 2 o (335 x 222 mm). Collation: *-** 8; a-s 8 t 6 u-z 8 A-D 8 E-K 4 . 2 L 6 M-P 4 . 2 Q 4 R-X 8 Y 4 Z 2 Aa 2 Bb 8 Cc-Ff 4 . 2 Gg-Kk 6 . 2. 354 leaves. Text in French and Italian, in roman and italic types respectively. Engraved title within architectural frame, engraved portrait of the author at the age of 57 on verso of title, title and portrait by Lonard Gaultier, 194 engravings, of which 174 full-page and 20 double-page (numbered to 195, numbers 148-149 a single double-page plate), three signed with the monogram "JG", text and engravings printed within borders of typographic floral ornaments, 4-line historiated and 2-line floriated initials, woodcut tail-pieces and corner ornaments. (Marginal browning to title and following leaf, the usual occasional slight marginal discoloration elsewhere, tiny hole in title-leaf and fol. *1, small stain to a6, minor offsetting and showthrough of engravings, soft crease to last 2 leaves.) Contemporary red morocco gilt over pasteboard, bound for Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, perhaps by Simon Corberan, with his gilt cipher at center of covers, spine tooled in six compartments; modern morocco-backed felt-lined folding case. Provenance : NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC (1580-1637), supra-libros; 17th-century price inscription on title-page. FIRST EDITION of a fundamental book in the history both of technology and of book design, and "one of the most elegantly produced of all technological treatises" (Norman). The scientific import of Ramelli's work resides in his demonstration of "the unlimited possibilities of machines. For example, the dozens of water-powered pumps and mills shown in his treatise clearly demonstrated that non-muscular power could be substituted for horse- or human-power in any mechanical task requiring continuous or repetitive application of force, and the portrayal of over twenty types of water pump ... destroyed the notion that there were necessary limits to the configuration or arrangement of a machine" (op. cit.) About half of the engravings depict hydraulic devices, the rest showing military machines as well as fountains, bridges, cranes, foundry equipment, etc., and a smattering of innovative devices such as the famous "reading wheel" or the bouquet with artificial singing birds. The influence of the illustrations was far-reaching and they were copied in a number of technical books during the next two centuries. In his preface, Ramelli explains that the exceptional care lavished upon the design and printing of his treatise was due as much to his wish to foil a crudely pirated publication of some of his designs (probably in the ca. 1583 Timon of Ambroise Bachot, future ingnieur du roi ), as to his desire to show gratitude to his patron Henri III. The work was reprinted only once, in 1620. ASSOCIATION COPY IN THE FINEST POSSIBLE CONDITION. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, an antiquary, philologist and naturalist of Aix-en-Provence, amassed one of the largest private libraries of his time, of which a manuscript catalogue survives in Carpentras. Many of the books were bound by his house binder Simon Corberan, who was apparently the first to include dates in the spine lettering of his patron's books (here omitted). The library was dispersed after Peiresc's death, since when this provenance has become synonymous with bibliophile condition. Adams R-52; J.-M. Arnoult, "Les livres de Peiresc dans les bibliothques parisiennes," in Revue francaise de l'histoire du livre 24 (1979) pp. 591-609; Cockle 788; Dibner Heralds of Science 173; Harvard/Mortimer French 452; Hobson, French and Italian collections and their bindings , p. xix and no. 36; Norman 1777.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 168
Auktion:
Datum:
18.03.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

RAMELLI, Agostino (ca. 1531-after 20 August 1608). Le diverse et artificiose machine ... nellequali si contengono varij et industriosi movimenti ... Composte in lingua Italiana et Francese . Paris: the author, 1588. 2 o (335 x 222 mm). Collation: *-** 8; a-s 8 t 6 u-z 8 A-D 8 E-K 4 . 2 L 6 M-P 4 . 2 Q 4 R-X 8 Y 4 Z 2 Aa 2 Bb 8 Cc-Ff 4 . 2 Gg-Kk 6 . 2. 354 leaves. Text in French and Italian, in roman and italic types respectively. Engraved title within architectural frame, engraved portrait of the author at the age of 57 on verso of title, title and portrait by Lonard Gaultier, 194 engravings, of which 174 full-page and 20 double-page (numbered to 195, numbers 148-149 a single double-page plate), three signed with the monogram "JG", text and engravings printed within borders of typographic floral ornaments, 4-line historiated and 2-line floriated initials, woodcut tail-pieces and corner ornaments. (Marginal browning to title and following leaf, the usual occasional slight marginal discoloration elsewhere, tiny hole in title-leaf and fol. *1, small stain to a6, minor offsetting and showthrough of engravings, soft crease to last 2 leaves.) Contemporary red morocco gilt over pasteboard, bound for Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, perhaps by Simon Corberan, with his gilt cipher at center of covers, spine tooled in six compartments; modern morocco-backed felt-lined folding case. Provenance : NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC (1580-1637), supra-libros; 17th-century price inscription on title-page. FIRST EDITION of a fundamental book in the history both of technology and of book design, and "one of the most elegantly produced of all technological treatises" (Norman). The scientific import of Ramelli's work resides in his demonstration of "the unlimited possibilities of machines. For example, the dozens of water-powered pumps and mills shown in his treatise clearly demonstrated that non-muscular power could be substituted for horse- or human-power in any mechanical task requiring continuous or repetitive application of force, and the portrayal of over twenty types of water pump ... destroyed the notion that there were necessary limits to the configuration or arrangement of a machine" (op. cit.) About half of the engravings depict hydraulic devices, the rest showing military machines as well as fountains, bridges, cranes, foundry equipment, etc., and a smattering of innovative devices such as the famous "reading wheel" or the bouquet with artificial singing birds. The influence of the illustrations was far-reaching and they were copied in a number of technical books during the next two centuries. In his preface, Ramelli explains that the exceptional care lavished upon the design and printing of his treatise was due as much to his wish to foil a crudely pirated publication of some of his designs (probably in the ca. 1583 Timon of Ambroise Bachot, future ingnieur du roi ), as to his desire to show gratitude to his patron Henri III. The work was reprinted only once, in 1620. ASSOCIATION COPY IN THE FINEST POSSIBLE CONDITION. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, an antiquary, philologist and naturalist of Aix-en-Provence, amassed one of the largest private libraries of his time, of which a manuscript catalogue survives in Carpentras. Many of the books were bound by his house binder Simon Corberan, who was apparently the first to include dates in the spine lettering of his patron's books (here omitted). The library was dispersed after Peiresc's death, since when this provenance has become synonymous with bibliophile condition. Adams R-52; J.-M. Arnoult, "Les livres de Peiresc dans les bibliothques parisiennes," in Revue francaise de l'histoire du livre 24 (1979) pp. 591-609; Cockle 788; Dibner Heralds of Science 173; Harvard/Mortimer French 452; Hobson, French and Italian collections and their bindings , p. xix and no. 36; Norman 1777.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 168
Auktion:
Datum:
18.03.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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