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VERANZIO, Fausto (c.1551-1617). Machinae novae. Venice, [c. 1616].
2° (sheet size 390 x 540mm). Etched title and 49 double-page numbered plates. (Lacking text, slight fold along center, some plates with light soiling, heavier on plate 9, and some plates with repairs mainly along fold.) Unbound in original sheets, preserved in a modern cloth box. Provenance: Congregazione Cardi? (neat inscriptions on title).
A VERY RARE AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SOUGHT-AFTER WORKS ON MACHINES, ARCHITECTURE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. It includes numerous plates depicting the author's inventions such as fountains, clocks, pumps, bridges and a man with a parachute jumping from campanile of St Mark's in Venice. Veranzio, or Verancic, was a Dalmatian who lived in Venice, friend of Tommaso Campanella and Marco de Dominis and close to the entourage of Rudolph II. Between 1581 and 1594 he lived in Prague and Vienna where he studied mathematics and mechanics; during that time he also travelled to Rome and had a chance to study Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts had a strong influence on his work. He is the author of an important polyglot dictionary published in Venice in 1585, but Machinae novae remains his masterpiece: the extreme rarity of the work is due to the fact that it was published at the author’s own expense in a very limited number of copies. Brunet V,1128; Riccardi II,592 (‘Raro e pregiato’).
2° (sheet size 390 x 540mm). Etched title and 49 double-page numbered plates. (Lacking text, slight fold along center, some plates with light soiling, heavier on plate 9, and some plates with repairs mainly along fold.) Unbound in original sheets, preserved in a modern cloth box. Provenance: Congregazione Cardi? (neat inscriptions on title).
A VERY RARE AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SOUGHT-AFTER WORKS ON MACHINES, ARCHITECTURE AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. It includes numerous plates depicting the author's inventions such as fountains, clocks, pumps, bridges and a man with a parachute jumping from campanile of St Mark's in Venice. Veranzio, or Verancic, was a Dalmatian who lived in Venice, friend of Tommaso Campanella and Marco de Dominis and close to the entourage of Rudolph II. Between 1581 and 1594 he lived in Prague and Vienna where he studied mathematics and mechanics; during that time he also travelled to Rome and had a chance to study Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts had a strong influence on his work. He is the author of an important polyglot dictionary published in Venice in 1585, but Machinae novae remains his masterpiece: the extreme rarity of the work is due to the fact that it was published at the author’s own expense in a very limited number of copies. Brunet V,1128; Riccardi II,592 (‘Raro e pregiato’).
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