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Condizione: New. xii, 43, col photos + maps. A5. PB. NEW. . 2nd edition. [9780956893567].

A handsome publication illustrating the technology behind the Dutch waterways, their canals, windmills, bridges and boats. The first part was first issued in 1736, the second in 1737, here a secondary issue with a title page of 1757 (the second part keeping a date of 1737), presented in the original trade binding of quarter sheep. Bierens de Haan 4836; Brunet IV, 568 (note); Graesse VII, 258. 2 parts, folio (555 x 347 mm). Titles printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, double-page engraved dedication leaves in part I. Complete with all 47 double-page plates, 20 in part I, 27 in part II, many folding, with the consecutive numbering I-XXV in part I, I-XXV and I-VI in part II, but with some folding plates numbered as two. Contemporary red quarter sheep, marbled paper sides. Rubbed, worn around extremities, but binding holding well and unrestored, contents generally clean. A very good copy.

Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1757-74. Large folio. (55 x 34,5 cm.). A large uncut copy in contemp. marbled boards, spine gone and later backed with buckram, original corners in leather a bit bumped. Stamps on foot of first title-page. Halftitel, title-pages in red/black with engraved vignettes. (2),2 engraved leafs with dedications, 14"(2),8 pp. and 25 + 24 large double-page or triple-page folded engraved plates + 6 additional plates (only sometimes present). With a total of 55 plates. On thick, heavy paper, wide-margined and internally fine and clean. Second edition. "Tileman van der Horst and Jan Schenk produced the Theatrum Machinarium Univesale, one of the most celebrated works on the construction of all those elements so necessary to keeping life dry in Amsterdam (the place of the book?s publication). It was perhaps the most important work then produced on dikes, sluices, dams, weirs, canals and swing-bridges, the very elements of existence in Holland. Jan Schenck was the engraver of this work, which may also be the most accurate and the most sumptuously illustrated book of its type in Holland in the 18th century - the technical aspects of the rendering was just superb." - Brunet V,1082 - Graesse VII, 258.