Architectura curiosa nova
Subtitle: exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta
By: per Georgium Andream Böcklern... Et in Latinam linguam translata à Johanne Christophoro Sturmio...
Contributors: Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703; Aubry, Abraham; Schwan, Balthazar, d. 1624; Fürst, Paul, ca. 1605-1666; Gerhard, Christoph, 1624-1681
Publisher: Impensis Pauli Fürsten, biblio-technopolae, typis Christophori Gerhardi
Published: 1664
Place of publication: Norimbergæ
Language: lat
Subjects: Fountains -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800.; Fountains -- Europe -- Early works to 1800.; Buildings -- Europe -- Early works to 1800.; Gardens -- Designs -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Architectura curiosa nova.
Notes: Paulus Fürst's dedication dated 16/6 March 1664.

Pagination, pt. 1: [10], 30 p., 4 plates. Pt. 2: [2], 13, [1] p., 71 figures on [44] plates. Pt. 3: [2], 22 p., 120 figures on [116] plates (the last folded). Pt. 4: [2], 26 p., 36 plates.

Added engraved t.-p. by Abraham Aubry. Plate 100, pt. 3,  signed by Barthazar Schwan as engraver; it and plate 103 appeared previously as plates 51 and 1 in Jacobus Strada's Desseins artificiaulx de toutes sortes des moulins (Frankfurt, 1617-18). Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Parts 2-4 have special added t.-p.'s.

In Getty copy plate 33, pt. 4, bound after plate 35.

Binding: modern mottled goatskin. Author & title in gilt on spine. Edges sprinkled red & brown.

Giovanni Muzio's bookplate, etched by Giacomo Manzù.