Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli de Ramelli, Agostino - 1970

Farnborough: Gregg International Publisher, 1970. [Originally published 1588]. Facsimile reprint, large thick octavo, pp [34], (676), with 195 large engraved plates, front endpaper slightly marked, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth slightly worn and marked, the lower cover rather more marked. Text in Italian and French. [Ramelli (1531- ca.1610) was an Italian engineer best known for this book of engineering designs which contains, among others, his design for the bookwheel. The book contains 195 designs, over 100 of which are water-raising machines, such as water pumps or wells. Other designs include bridges, mills, and a possible forerunner to the Wankel engine.]. Cloth. Good.