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BRANCA, Giovanni (1571-1645). Le Machine. Volume nuovo et di molto artificio da fare effetti maravigliosi tanto spiritali quanto di animale operatione. Rome: Jacomo Manuci for Jacomo Mascardi, 1629.
4° (230 x 173mm). Engraved title and 77 full-page woodcuts. (Title with restoration to upper margin, lightly browned.) Contemporary vellum (bowed). Provenance: J. Jenkyns (early inscription on title) -- William Chadwell Mylne (1781-1863, bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. 'This treatise on machinery is illustrated by 77 full-page plates, the most famous of which shows the first representation of a steam turbine as well as the first application of steam to useful work', states Dibner. 'Although a steam jet is used, with its kinetic energy applied to the vanes of a turbine rather than the expansive power of steam as applied to later engines, yet the very use of steam in motive power is of historical significance. The turbine shaft is shown geared down and ends in pestles for pounding materials in mortars. Many other machines are shown, including a reversing hoisting engine'. Dibner 175; Norman 333; Wheeler Gift 96.
4° (230 x 173mm). Engraved title and 77 full-page woodcuts. (Title with restoration to upper margin, lightly browned.) Contemporary vellum (bowed). Provenance: J. Jenkyns (early inscription on title) -- William Chadwell Mylne (1781-1863, bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. 'This treatise on machinery is illustrated by 77 full-page plates, the most famous of which shows the first representation of a steam turbine as well as the first application of steam to useful work', states Dibner. 'Although a steam jet is used, with its kinetic energy applied to the vanes of a turbine rather than the expansive power of steam as applied to later engines, yet the very use of steam in motive power is of historical significance. The turbine shaft is shown geared down and ends in pestles for pounding materials in mortars. Many other machines are shown, including a reversing hoisting engine'. Dibner 175; Norman 333; Wheeler Gift 96.
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