Auction 487/round/2 BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 22, 2020 (your local time)
Italy
 Via Pontaccio 12, 20121 Milano

Auction 487

22 September 2020

II session - 3.30 pm, from lot 135 to lot 270

Venue: Via Pontaccio 12, Milano

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LOT 144:

BESSON, Jacques (1540-1573) - Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum. Lyon: Vincent, 1582. A later edition in a fine ...

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BESSON, Jacques (1540-1573) - Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum. Lyon: Vincent, 1582. A later edition in a fine modern binding of this classic work on engineering considered to be the first modern "teatro di macchine". Jacques Besson was nominated "Maitre des machines du roi" and is remembered for his impossible mechanisms and for having strongly improved the system of the water mill. Folio (450 x 270mm). Title within allegorical border, 60 illustrations (washed, a3 repeated, small restoration to top margin of b2, k1 with printing error). Dark morocco signed by Lobstein-Laurenchet with gilt title on spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (small defect to spine near title).