BOEKLER Georg Andreas
£700
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Theatrum machinarum novum exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias, pedibus ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas ... ex Germania in Latium recens translatum opera R.D. Henrici Schmitz ... 1st Latin edition, engraved titlepage by V. Sommer, with 131 of 154 engraved plates by Balthasar Schwan and E. Kieser, (lacking plates nos 15, 31-32, 43-44, 46, 49, 63-64, 84, 86, 108-112, 116, 132-133, 141-142, 145 & 153), contemporary calf, dried and worn, covers detached, some stains to text, but the plates generally in good clean state, folio, Cologne: sumpt. Pauli Principis, 1662
Note: Thorndike VII, p. 619; Brunet I 1024; Graesse I, p. 459.
First published in German in the previous year, the work shows a spectacular range of gunpowder mills, saw mills, water raising devices, fire engines, roasting spits, etc. The final plate shows " a fire engine made by Johann Hautsch of Nürnberg in 1658, by which twenty-four men could raise water to eighty or a hundred feet" (Thorndike).