Le diverse et artificiose machine
By: del capitano Agostino Ramelli ... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione; composte in lungua italiana et francese.
Contributors: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: In casa del'autore ...
Published: 1588
Place of publication: A Parigi
Language: fre
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Machinery -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Text alternately in Italian (italic letter) and French (roman letter).

Signatures: *⁸2*⁸a-s⁸t⁶u-z⁸A-D⁸E-K⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁾, L⁶M-Q⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁾, R-X⁸Y⁴Z²2A²2B⁸2C-2F⁽⁴⁾⁽²⁾,2G-2K⁽⁶⁾⁽²⁾.

Engraved title; verso of t.p. is engraved port. of Ramelli.

Each page of text and plates within ornamental type frame; initials, corner- and tail-pieces.

There are 194 plates (numbered 195 but 148 and 149 are combined as one illustration).

For a description of this book see: The various and ingenious machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588), translated from the Italian and French with a biographical study of the author by Martha Teach Gnudi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Rosenwald 1086

Adams R52

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