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DOBRZENSKI, Jacob Johannes Wenceslaus (1623-1697). Nova et amaenior de admirando fontium genio … philosophia. Ferrara: Alfonso and Giovanni Battista de Marestis, 1657.
Small 2° (319 x 219mm). Additional engraved title, printer’s device on printed title and repeated on final leaf, 55 engraved illustrations, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials. (Frontispiece with mainly marginal light soiling, small part of margin torn away, just touching image, occasional very light browning or marginal thumb-soiling.) Contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, new front free endpaper). Provenance: Lucas Fanti (18th/19th century; first priest of S. Maria Iubenicorum, Venice; bookplate on pastedown: 'Lucas Fanti Sac. Theo. Doct. Primus Presbyter Ecclesiæ Venetæ S. Mariæ Jubenicorum D.D. orate pro me'.)
FIRST EDITION . A scarce work describing and illustrating a variety of hydraulic machines including a water-clock, a steam engine and fountains. Berlin Kat. 3612; cf. Wellcome II, 425 (dated 1659).
Small 2° (319 x 219mm). Additional engraved title, printer’s device on printed title and repeated on final leaf, 55 engraved illustrations, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials. (Frontispiece with mainly marginal light soiling, small part of margin torn away, just touching image, occasional very light browning or marginal thumb-soiling.) Contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, new front free endpaper). Provenance: Lucas Fanti (18th/19th century; first priest of S. Maria Iubenicorum, Venice; bookplate on pastedown: 'Lucas Fanti Sac. Theo. Doct. Primus Presbyter Ecclesiæ Venetæ S. Mariæ Jubenicorum D.D. orate pro me'.)
FIRST EDITION . A scarce work describing and illustrating a variety of hydraulic machines including a water-clock, a steam engine and fountains. Berlin Kat. 3612; cf. Wellcome II, 425 (dated 1659).
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