SCIENCE FURTENBACH JOSEPH the Elder Mannhaffter Kunst Spieg

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FURTENBACH, JOSEPH, the Elder. Mannhaffter Kunst-Spiegel; oder, Allerhand mathematisch- und mechanisch-hochnutzlich . . . Delectationes, und . . . Freye-Künste. 33 folding etched plates numbered 1-32, including additional title dated 1663. [26] (of [28]), 292 pages; lacks frontispiece portrait. Folio, 18th-century 1/2 sheep, spine badly worn, ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; letterpress and additional titles foxed and dampstained, small piece torn from blank lower inner corner of last several text leaves. Ulm: the Author, (1663)

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Treatise comprising sections on arithmetic, geometry, planimetry, geography, astronomy, navigation, perspective, and mechanics, the construction of grottos and water pipelines, pyrotechnics and gunnery, military and civil engineering, shipbuilding, and the building of fortified artificial islands. Berlin 1779 (Augsburg edition, same year).