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BESSON, JACQUES. Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum...cum Francisci Beroaldi Figurarum declaratione demonstrativa... necnon... Additionibus... Iulium Paschalem. Lyons: Barthelemy Vincent 1582. Folio, 405 x 269 mm. (15 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.), nineteenth-century quarter pebble-grained morocco, slightly rubbed, interleaved, pale impressions, 2 or 3 plates shakily printed, marginal repairs to title, last leaf (Q4) laid down, some marginal dampstaining, mostly marginal soiling. Fifth edition, 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, plate 35 by René Boyvin, with his monogram. Adams B-839; Brunet I, 830 (stating that the plates of all editions after 1579 were reworked to some degree); cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 56-58.
Provenance: Eighteenth-century Spanish ownership inscription on A3r and Q3v, from Madrid library (indecipherable), Spanish translation of the text for Figure I on the first interleaved sheet in the same hand -- "Vincent", nineteenth-century signature (or signature stamp) on front flyleaf, shelfmark label on spine -- Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905).
Provenance: Eighteenth-century Spanish ownership inscription on A3r and Q3v, from Madrid library (indecipherable), Spanish translation of the text for Figure I on the first interleaved sheet in the same hand -- "Vincent", nineteenth-century signature (or signature stamp) on front flyleaf, shelfmark label on spine -- Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905).