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MONTE, Guidobaldo de (1545-1607). Le mechaniche. Translated from Latin into Italian by Filippo Pigafetta. Venice: Evangelista Deuchino, 1615.
8o (200 x 145 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title, woodcuts in text. (Minor worming to first few leaves, minor marginal staining). 17th-century vellum (spine repaired, some wear to top edge of upper cover).
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. "Regarded by contemporaries as the greatest work on statics since the Greeks" (DSB). The first edition in Latin was published in Pesaro, 1577. Riccardi I(2):179.
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FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. "Regarded by contemporaries as the greatest work on statics since the Greeks" (DSB). The first edition in Latin was published in Pesaro, 1577. Riccardi I(2):179.