Architectura curiosa nova : exponens 1. fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq́; aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. magnum amoenissimorum fontium, machinarumq́; aquæductoriarum sumtu magno extructarum, ac per Italiam, Galliam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. specus artificiales sumtuossisimas, cum plerisq́; principum Europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq; arcibus. 5. cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductu dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq; labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum : omnia 200. æri incisis atq ad vivum maximam partem factis delineationibus, in usum studiosi lectoris & artificis / explicata & vernaculo idiomate descripta per Georgium Andream Böcklern ; et in Latinam linguam translata à Johanne Christophoro Sturmio.

Accession number: 
PML 151340
Author: 
Böckler, Georg Andreas.
Published: 
Norimbergæ : Pauli Fursten, [1664]
Description: 
4 pts. in 1 v. : ill. (1 folded) ; 35 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes: 

Title engraved and t.p. in red and black with woodcut flower border.
Pts. 2-4 have separate title-pages.

Binding: 
Contemporary calf.
Provenance: 
Bookplate of Luton Library and Earl of Bute; From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
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