<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3">(TECHNOLOGY) Ramelli, Agostino. LA DIVERSE ET ARTIFICIOSE MACHINE… Dal Ponte Della Tresia Ingegniero del Christianissimo Re di Francia et di Pollonia. Composte in Lingua Italiana et Francese. Paris: In Casa del’Autore. 1588. Folio. First edition. ff.(16),338. Text in French and Italian. Each page of text enclosed by a border of type ornaments. Illustrated with an engraved title within an architectural border, a portrait on the verso of the engraved title, and 195 engraved plates (20 are double page). (Note: plates numbered 148 and 149 are a single double-page plate). Expertly bound in full modern blind ruled calf done in antique style. One leaf (f.82) with a paper repair at bottom blank margin. $37,500.00 (trade discount allowed)<BR>
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