Spiritalium liber.
Amsterdam, Johann Jansson à Waesberge, 1680.
4to. (4), 120 pp. With 82 engravings in the text. Early 19th c. full calf with green labels to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers.
€ 1,500.00
First printing of this Latin edition, based on Federico Commandino's translation. Includes Giambattista Aleotti's "Quatuor theoremata spiritualia" (in Latin translation). A very prettily illustrated work showing the fountains, water-powered machines, and hydraulic organs described by the Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria in the first century A.D.
Well-preserved.
References
Hoffmann II, 217. Graesse III, 258.
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