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Additional authors

1. Schmitz, Heinrich.
2. Schwan, Balthasar, -1624.
3. Kieser, Eberhard, 1583-1631.
4. Somer, Mathias van.

Description

1. [12], 55, [1] p., [1], 154 leaves of plates : chiefly ill.; 35 cm. (fol.)

Alternative title

1. Theatrum Machinarvm Novvm.

Subject

1. Stamping mill > Early works to 1800
2. Mills and mill-work > Early works to 1800
3. Mechanical engineering > Early works to 1800
4. Machinery > Early works to 1800
5. Papermaking machinery in art > Early works to 1800
6. Papermaking machinery > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Schlosser 096

Note

1. "Papyromylos": p. 23; plates 73-74.
2. In Latin; brief descriptions in the plates in German.
3. Translation of: Theatrum machinarum novum, das ist, Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der mechanischen Künsten ... (Originally published: Nürnberg : In Verlegung Paul Fürsten, 1661).
4. Added engraved t.p. reads: Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens opera molaria et aquatica constructum industria Georgi Andrea Böckleri ... Noribergæ : Sumptibus Pauli Fürstii ..., 1662.
5. Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2[par.]² A-G⁴ (leaf 2[par.]2 blank).
6. Blank leaf conjugate with added engraved t.p., not counted in collation, follows leaf [par.]4.
7. 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.
8. Tailpiece and ornamental initials.

Indexed in (note)

1. BN Le livre (1972)
2. Russo, F. Bib. de l'histoire des sciences et des techniques
3. Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking

Author

1. Böckler, Georg Andreas.

Title

1. 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

1. Coloniæ Agrippinæ : Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici, 1662.

Indexed in:

1. BN Le livre (1972), 99
2. Russo, F. Bib. de l'histoire des sciences et des techniques, p. 62
3. Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking, p. 18-19

Local note

1. Provenance: G.M. Bartoli Aleandri; T.M. Cleland (bookplates).

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Stamping mill -- Early works to 1800.

Added author

1. Schmitz, Heinrich.
2. Schwan, Balthasar, -1624.
3. Kieser, Eberhard, 1583-1631.
4. Somer, Mathias van.

Added title

1. Theatrum Machinarvm Novvm.

LCCN

1. 12029671

Research call number

1. Schlosser 096
2. (Parsons) VDCP+ (Böckler. Theatrum machinarum novum)
3. VFG+ (Böckler. Theatrum machinarum)