Architectura curiosa nova :
exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amœnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta /
per Georgium Andream Böcklern... Et in Latinam linguam translata à Johanne Christophoro Sturmio...
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Latin
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Norimbergæ : Impensis Pauli Fürsten, biblio-technopolae, typis Christophori Gerhardi, [1664]
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Parts 2-4 have special added t.-p.'s.
Added engraved t.-p. by Abraham Aubry. Plate 100, pt. 3, signed by Barthazar Schwan as engraver; it and plate 103 appeared previously as plates 51 and 1 in Jacobus Strada's Desseins artificiaulx de toutes sortes des moulins (Frankfurt, 1617-18). Head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Pagination, pt. 1: [10], 30 p., 4 plates. Pt. 2: [2], 13, [1] p., 71 figures on [44] plates. Pt. 3: [2], 22 p., 120 figures on [116] plates (the last folded). Pt. 4: [2], 26 p., 36 plates.
Paulus Fürst's dedication dated 16/6 March 1664.
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4 pt. in 1 :
plates (1 fold.) ;
34 cm. (fol.)
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