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HERO OF ALEXANDRIA. Spiritalium liber. A federico commandino urbinate, ex Graeco nuper in Latinum conversus. [Paris:] Aegidius Gorbinus, 1583. Numerous woodcut illustrations showing mechanical devices operated by atmospheric pressure, including the first reactive steam turbine. 4to, later wrappers; a few leaves stained, some marginal dampstaining and soiling. Riccardi I, 364.