Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
Zonca, Vittorio (1568-1602)
Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii.

Padua: Pietro Bertelli, 1607.

First edition, small folio, engraved title with elaborate architectural border, illustrated with forty-two full-paged engraved plates of ingenious machines, including a depiction of letterpress printing, and an engraving press; bound in modern gilt-decorated parchment over stiff boards, contents good, 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

Dibner 173 (note); Riccardi II, 668-669.



Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.