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ZONCA, Vittorio. Novo Teatro di Machine et Edifici per varie et sicure operatione col le loro figure tagliate in Rame. Padua: Francesco Bertelli, 1656.
2° (300 x 200mm). Engraved title, 42 full-page engraved illustrations of hydraulic machines, mills, printing and engraving presses and other machines, woodcut initials, 2 inserted leaves with manuscript explanations of the plates, in English, at pp. 73 and 74. (Some marginal dampstaining and soiling, small paper fault hole on G2 affecting a few letters of text, some leaves with library stamps.) Later red half morocco (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Commissioners of Patents for Inventions (library stamps); British Library (stamps and cancel stamp). Riccardi I (2), p. 669 "Le tavole sono impresse meglio che nelle precedenti edizioni".
2° (300 x 200mm). Engraved title, 42 full-page engraved illustrations of hydraulic machines, mills, printing and engraving presses and other machines, woodcut initials, 2 inserted leaves with manuscript explanations of the plates, in English, at pp. 73 and 74. (Some marginal dampstaining and soiling, small paper fault hole on G2 affecting a few letters of text, some leaves with library stamps.) Later red half morocco (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Commissioners of Patents for Inventions (library stamps); British Library (stamps and cancel stamp). Riccardi I (2), p. 669 "Le tavole sono impresse meglio che nelle precedenti edizioni".