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Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas, variis frumentis commolendis, chartæ, & nitrato pulveri apparando, diversis tundendis, serrandis, terebrandis, panno constipando, decorando, aliisquè usibus destinatas, adaptatas ... annexis prætereà organorum, utensilium necessariorum, & utilium, ad hæc apparanda, figuris & explicationibus ...

Title
Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas, variis frumentis commolendis, chartæ, & nitrato pulveri apparando, diversis tundendis, serrandis, terebrandis, panno constipando, decorando, aliisquè usibus destinatas, adaptatas ... annexis prætereà organorum, utensilium necessariorum, & utilium, ad hæc apparanda, figuris & explicationibus ... / per Georgium Andream Bocklerum ... ; ex Germaniâ in Latium recens translatum operâ ... Henrici Schmitz ...
Author
Böckler, Georg Andreas.
Publication
Coloniæ Agrippinæ : Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici, 1662.

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TextRestricted use (Parsons) VDCP+ (Böckler. Theatrum machinarum novum)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
TextPermit needed Schlosser 096Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Schmitz, Heinrich.
  • Schwan, Balthasar, -1624.
  • Kieser, Eberhard, 1583-1631.
  • Somer, Mathias van.
Description
[12], 55, [1] p., [1], 154 leaves of plates : chiefly ill.; 35 cm. (fol.)
Alternative Title
Theatrum Machinarvm Novvm.
Subjects
Note
  • "Papyromylos": p. 23; plates 73-74.
  • In Latin; brief descriptions in the plates in German.
  • Translation of: Theatrum machinarum novum, das ist, Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der mechanischen Künsten ... (Originally published: Nürnberg : In Verlegung Paul Fürsten, 1661).
  • Added engraved t.p. reads: Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens opera molaria et aquatica constructum industria Georgi Andrea Böckleri ... Noribergæ : Sumptibus Pauli Fürstii ..., 1662.
  • Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2[par.]² A-G⁴ (leaf 2[par.]2 blank).
  • Blank leaf conjugate with added engraved t.p., not counted in collation, follows leaf [par.]4.
  • Illustrations: 155 prints : engraving ; full-page (plate mark 27 x 20 cm. or smaller). Comprise added t.p. by Mathias van Somer after Böckler and 154 prints from the original ed., chiefly repeated from various sources. Thirty signed B.S. f. or Balt. Schw. (i.e. Balthasar Schwan) and eight signed EK or E. Kieser (i.e. Eberhard Kieser) originally engraved by Schwan or Kieser after J. de Strada and published in the latter's Première-[seconde] partie des desseins artificiaulx de toutes sortes de moulins ... (Franfurt, 1617-1618); cf. preface, p. [3-4]. One signed with monogram OK or KO. Eighteen are reversed and altered copies of prints originally published in Agostino Ramelli's Diverse et artificiose machine (Paris, 1588). Others are reversed and altered copies of prints originally published in Salamon Caus' Raisons des forces mouvantes (Frankfurt, 1615); Georg Agricola's De re metallica (Basel, 1556); and Vittorio Zonca's Novo teatro di machine et edificii (Padua, 1607). No. 73 (papermaking) is from Strada; no. 74 is after Zonca, p. 94. References: Ferguson, E. Various and ingenious machines of Agostino Ramelli, p. 39; Davison, C. Special exhibition of historic books on machines, p. 13, no. 27.
  • Tailpiece and ornamental initials.
Indexed In (note)
  • BN Le livre (1972)
  • Russo, F. Bib. de l'histoire des sciences et des techniques
  • Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking
Call Number
Schlosser 096
LCCN
12029671
OCLC
  • 14585905
  • NYPG89-B48809
Author
Böckler, Georg Andreas.
Title
Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas, variis frumentis commolendis, chartæ, & nitrato pulveri apparando, diversis tundendis, serrandis, terebrandis, panno constipando, decorando, aliisquè usibus destinatas, adaptatas ... annexis prætereà organorum, utensilium necessariorum, & utilium, ad hæc apparanda, figuris & explicationibus ... / per Georgium Andream Bocklerum ... ; ex Germaniâ in Latium recens translatum operâ ... Henrici Schmitz ...
Imprint
Coloniæ Agrippinæ : Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici, 1662.
Indexed In:
BN Le livre (1972), 99
Russo, F. Bib. de l'histoire des sciences et des techniques, p. 62
Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking, p. 18-19
Local Note
Provenance: G.M. Bartoli Aleandri; T.M. Cleland (bookplates).
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Local Subject
Stamping mill -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author
Schmitz, Heinrich.
Schwan, Balthasar, -1624.
Kieser, Eberhard, 1583-1631.
Somer, Mathias van.
Added Title
Theatrum Machinarvm Novvm.
Research Call Number
Schlosser 096
(Parsons) VDCP+ (Böckler. Theatrum machinarum novum)
VFG+ (Böckler. Theatrum machinarum)
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