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BESSON, JACQUES. Il theatro de gl'instrumenti & machine...con una brieue necessaria dichiaration dimostratiua, di M. Francesco Beroaldo...nuouamente di Latino in volgare Italiano tradotto...per...
Giulio Paschali. Lyons: Barthélemy Vincent 1582.
Folio, 412 x 265mm. (16 3/16 x 10 3/8in.), eighteenth-century Italian mottled sheep, spine gilt, slight wear to corners, small dampstain to blank foremargins, a few leaves slightly browned.
First edition in Italian, title printed within woodcut architectural border with classical figures and grotesques, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, 60 etched and engraved plates, the majority reworkings of the plates from the first edition [Orléans? 1569?] by various engravers after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, plates 35 and 51 by René Boyvin with his monogram.
Brunet I, 830 (stating that the plates of all editions after 1579 were reworked to some degree).
Provenance: "Herrn. Maschinist Rettig zum Andenken an Georg Baumeister 1891", inscription on upper free endpage.
Giulio Paschali. Lyons: Barthélemy Vincent 1582.
Folio, 412 x 265mm. (16 3/16 x 10 3/8in.), eighteenth-century Italian mottled sheep, spine gilt, slight wear to corners, small dampstain to blank foremargins, a few leaves slightly browned.
First edition in Italian, title printed within woodcut architectural border with classical figures and grotesques, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, 60 etched and engraved plates, the majority reworkings of the plates from the first edition [Orléans? 1569?] by various engravers after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, plates 35 and 51 by René Boyvin with his monogram.
Brunet I, 830 (stating that the plates of all editions after 1579 were reworked to some degree).
Provenance: "Herrn. Maschinist Rettig zum Andenken an Georg Baumeister 1891", inscription on upper free endpage.