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FONTANA, Carlo (1634-1714). Utilissimo trattato dell'acque correnti. Rome: Giovanni Francesco Buagni, 1696. 2° (350 x 240mm). 2 double-page engraved plates and 80 engraved illustrations, mostly half-page. (Some occasional browning and light spotting.) Later half calf (corners worn, extremities rubbed, some wormholes in spine). Provenance: Antonio Muñoz (book-label).
FIRST EDITION OF A FINELY ILLUSTRATED WORK ON HYDRAULICS composed by the influential Roman architect Carlo Fontana. His treatise on hydraulics is based on Fontinus, De Aquaeductibus Urbis Romae, one of the few surviving ancient texts on hydraulics, as well as on the recent discoveries of Benedetto Castelli and Evangelista Torricelli. This copy contains the bifolium of Capitoli aggunti (discussing the pressure of water and air), which is sometimes lacking. Berlin Kat. 3613; Brunet II, 1329; Fowler 123 (without the two double-page plates); Riccardi I (1) 465, 1 ('rare and valued both from a bibliographical point of view for the elegance of the plates and from a scientific perspective').
FIRST EDITION OF A FINELY ILLUSTRATED WORK ON HYDRAULICS composed by the influential Roman architect Carlo Fontana. His treatise on hydraulics is based on Fontinus, De Aquaeductibus Urbis Romae, one of the few surviving ancient texts on hydraulics, as well as on the recent discoveries of Benedetto Castelli and Evangelista Torricelli. This copy contains the bifolium of Capitoli aggunti (discussing the pressure of water and air), which is sometimes lacking. Berlin Kat. 3613; Brunet II, 1329; Fowler 123 (without the two double-page plates); Riccardi I (1) 465, 1 ('rare and valued both from a bibliographical point of view for the elegance of the plates and from a scientific perspective').