Architectura curiosa nova, 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,
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
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