RAMELLI, AGOSTINO. (ca. 1531-after 20 August 1608). Le diverse et artificiose machine...nellequali si contengono varii et industriosi movimenti...Composte in Lingua Italiana et Francese . Paris: the author, 1588. 2 o (328 x 213 mm). Text in French and Italian in roman and italic types. Engraved title within architectural frame, engraved portrait of the author on verso, both by Lonard Gaultier, 194 engravings, of which 174 full-page and 20 double-page (numbered to 195, nos. 148-149 a single double-page plate), three signed with the monogram "J.G.", text and engravings printed within borders of typographic ornaments, 4-line historiated and 2-line floriated initials, woodcut tail-pieces and corner ornaments. (Title-leaf rehinged, upper margin of title repaired catching the hatched background of engraved portrait on verso, the affected area touched up in ink facsimile, Kk1 with long tear neatly repaired, occasional marginal discoloration.) 17th-century French speckled calf, spine gilt (restorations to head and tail of spine and corners, joints worn); modern half morocco felt-lined folding case. FIRST EDITION of a fundamental book in the history both of technology and of book design, "one of the most elegantly produced of all technological treatises" (Norman). Adams R-52; Dibner Heralds 173; Harvard/Mortimer French 452; Norman 1777.
RAMELLI, AGOSTINO. (ca. 1531-after 20 August 1608). Le diverse et artificiose machine...nellequali si contengono varii et industriosi movimenti...Composte in Lingua Italiana et Francese . Paris: the author, 1588. 2 o (328 x 213 mm). Text in French and Italian in roman and italic types. Engraved title within architectural frame, engraved portrait of the author on verso, both by Lonard Gaultier, 194 engravings, of which 174 full-page and 20 double-page (numbered to 195, nos. 148-149 a single double-page plate), three signed with the monogram "J.G.", text and engravings printed within borders of typographic ornaments, 4-line historiated and 2-line floriated initials, woodcut tail-pieces and corner ornaments. (Title-leaf rehinged, upper margin of title repaired catching the hatched background of engraved portrait on verso, the affected area touched up in ink facsimile, Kk1 with long tear neatly repaired, occasional marginal discoloration.) 17th-century French speckled calf, spine gilt (restorations to head and tail of spine and corners, joints worn); modern half morocco felt-lined folding case. FIRST EDITION of a fundamental book in the history both of technology and of book design, "one of the most elegantly produced of all technological treatises" (Norman). Adams R-52; Dibner Heralds 173; Harvard/Mortimer French 452; Norman 1777.
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