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.

Description

Main Author

Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600.

Related Names

Gaultier, Léonard, 1561-1641.

Language(s)

Italian ; French

Published

A Parigi : In casa del'autore, 1588.

Subjects

Mechanical engineering > Mechanical engineering / Early works to 1800.
Machinery > Machinery / Early works to 1800.
Engravings > Engravings / France > Engravings / France / 16th century.

Note

Engraved t.p. and port. of the author on t.p. verso, both with monogram of Léonard Gaultier. 194 engraved ill. (20 double-page, the rest full-page) depicting machinery. A few of the ill. are signed with the monogram JG; Mortimer rejects its assignment to Jean de Gourmont. The pages of both text and ill. have borders of type ornaments. Tailpieces, cornerpieces. Initials.

Physical Description

[16], 338 leaves : 195 ill., port. 35 cm. (fol.)

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