GUGLIELMINI, DOMENICO. Della Natura de' Fiumi . . . Nuova Edizione con le Annotazioni di Eustachio Manfredi. 18 folding engraved plates. [8], xvi, 427, [1] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum; light dampstain in outer margin of index leaves and plates. Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1739
Second edition of Guglielmini's 1697 treatise on rivers, "one of the most important hydraulic works of its time . . . The book discusses the nature of rivers and their parts, the motion of water, confluents and estuaries, banks [etc.]"--Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 152 (original edition). Gamba 1940; Riccardi I, 643.
