Theatri machinarvm erster[-sechster] Theill
Subtitle: in welchem vilerley künstliche Machinae in vnterschidlichen Kupfferstücken zu sehen sindt ...
By: durch Henricum Zeisingk ...
Contributors: Grosse, Henning, 1553-1621; Bretschneider, Andreas, ca. 1578-ca. 1640; Megiser, Hieronymus, approximately 1553-1618
Publisher: In Verlegung Henning Grossen des iungern Buchhendl in Leipzigk
Published: 1613
Place of publication: [Leipzig]
Language: ger
Subjects: Machine design; Early works to 1800; Machinery
Other titles: Theatri machinarum erster Theill
Notes: Pts. 4-6 include translations by Hieronymus Megiserus.

Some plates by Andreas Bretschneider. Others by or after Henning Grossen, and some after Heinrich Zeising.

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 1774

The pts. that comprise Library's copy are from various editions. Some have colophons that differ from the imprints on the t.p.'s (etched except for 4. Theil), and dates on some of the etched t.p.'s have been altered. 1. Teil. T.p. has altered date of 1661. Colophon: Leipzig : In Verlegung Henning Grossens Sel. Erben ; Zeitz : gedruckt durch Christophorum Cellarium, anno 1658 -- 2. Teil. T.p. date 1614, but ed. described as 3rd printing, by Henning Grossen's heirs. Colophon: Zeitz : Gedruckt durch Christophorum Cellarium, Anno 1659 -- 3. Teil. T.p. date 1618. Colophon: Leipzig : In Verlegung Friederich Lanckisch, 1664 -- 4. Teil. T.p. date 1613. No colophon -- 5. Teil. T.p. date 1614. No colophon -- 6. Teil. T.p. has an altered date of 1636, as well as 1614. Colophon: Leipzig : In Verlegung Henning Grossens Sel. Erben : Druckts [sic] in Fried. Lanck. Druckerey, Christophorus Cellarius, anno 1655.