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CEREDI, GIUSEPPE. Tre Discorsi sopra il Modo d'alzar Acque da' Luoghi Bassi. 4 folding woodcut plates; woodcut text illustrations. [20], 100 pages. 4to, modern binding of vellum-backed boards covered with 16th-century printed liturgical leaves; varying browning or foxing, occasional marginal soiling, first plate bound upside down, second frayed along outer edges with slight image loss, third plate dampstained, with clean tears repaired on verso. Parma: Seth Viotti, 1567
first edition. "Ceredi was interested in the construction and use of the Archimedean screw for the irrigation of fields and the draining of swamps"--Drake & Drapbkin, Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy, page 52. Honeyman Sale 661; Riccardi I, 339.
