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Diverse et artificiose machine by RAMELLI, Agostino

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Title: Diverse et artificiose machine
Author: RAMELLI, Agostino
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: In casa del'autore, 1588. Le Diverse et artificiose machine. Paris: In casa del'autore, 1588. Full Description: RAMELLI, Agostino. Le Diverse et artificiose machine...Nellequali si contengono varii et industriosi movimenti, degni digrandissima Speculatione, per cavarne beneficio infinito in ogni forte d'operatione; composte in lingua Italiana et Francese. Paris: In casa del'autore, 1588. First edition. Folio (13 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 346 x 224 mm.). [16], 338 leaves. Text in French and Italian in Roman and Italic types respectively. Engraved title (*1) within architectural border and with engraved portrait of the author on the verso, both signed with the monogram of Léonard Gaultier (1561-1641). Complete with 194 text engravings numbered I-CXCV (numbers CXLVIII and CXLIX combined as one double-page illustration), twenty of which (numbers XCV, CXLI-CXLV, CXLVII, CXLVIII/CXLIX, CLI-CLIII, CLXXXI-CLXXXIII, CLXXXVI, CLXXXIX-CXCII, and CXCV) are double-page and the remainder full-page. Plates CL, CLI, and CLII signed with the monogram "JG," which some bibliographers have identified as Jean de Gourmont. The remaining plates are unsigned and have been attributed to an unkown atelier, although Gnudi has made an interesting case for attribution to Ramelli's disgruntled associate Ambroise Bachot. Four-line historiated and two-line floriated woodcut initials, woodcut tail-pieces and corner ornaments. Contemporary full calf. Boards and spine ruled and stamped in blind. Blind central device edges sprinkled red. Some wear to binding, including a repair to leather of front board. Leaf uii with a small repair, not touching text or image. Lear A with repair that is just touching the border and a few letters of text on the recto and the border on the verso. Leaf Bb8 with the bottom outer corner renewed, not touching text, all with no loss of text. final figure CXCV with a small repair to bottom margin, not touching image. Some generally foxing and toning and a few insignificant rust spots. Overall, an excellent copy. "Ramelli's book on machinery, one of the most elegantly produced of all technological treatises, emphasized and exploited the unlimited possiblities [sic] of machines. For example, the dozens of water-powered pumps and mills shown in his treatise clearly demonstrated that non-muscular power could be substituted for horse- or human-power in any mechanical task requiring continuous or repetitive application of force, and the portrayal of more than twenty types of water pump (including his own invention, the rotary pump) destroyed the notion that there were necessary limits to the configuration or arrangement of a machine. Ramelli's mechanical astuteness showed itself both in his inventions and in his innovative combinations of fundamental elements. His machines became part of the common stock of mechanical knowledge, and his mechanical treatise remained a primary influence for at least two centuries. The plates in Ramelli's treatise are artistically as well as technologically superb, the bilingual text beautifully printed, and both plates and text surrounded by handsome borders of typographic ornaments. The reasons for this sumptuousness were twofold: First, Ramelli had dedicated the book to his patron Henri III; and second, he had previously had several designs stolen from him by a trusted associate (probably Ambroise Bachot, later engineer to Henri IV), who published them in corrupt and mutilated form and claimed them as his own. As a result of this experience Ramelli planned his treatise as a particularly lavish work that would be difficult to counterfeit, and produced and published it from his own house where he could maintain absolute control over the project. He succeeded in preventing any pirated editions and made the book so expensive and difficult to produce that it was reprinted only once, in a German edition of 1620, before the twentieth century" (Norman Library). Dibner 173. Harvard, French, 452. Norman Library 1777. M.T. Gnudi, "Agostino Ramelli and Ambroise Bachot," Technology and Culture 15 (1974), pp. 614-625. HBS 69495. $27,500.

[From upper cover]: Back and Forth, Book Number 108 by SMITH, Keith A.

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Title: [From upper cover]: Back and Forth, Book Number 108
Author: SMITH, Keith A.
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Eight leaves, each leaf larger by 1/2” from the previous. 8vo (202 x 148 mm.), orig. leather-backed boards, stitching on spine, title printed on upper cover. [From colophon]: Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985. An uncommon visual and interactive poem by the celebrated book artist Keith A. Smith (b. 1938), bound by the artist and printed offset in a numbered edition of 200, signed by the artist on the colophon page. Like Book 107, the intricate structure of overlapping text on each leaf requires repeated manipulation of the book and the pages. Smith writes in his auto-bibliography 200 Books (2000), “[The] text is a poem written for my dying mother. I completed the poem and placed a unique binding on it in time for one of my final drives back and forth to visit her in the hospital, 500 miles from Rochester to Fort Wayne. It was a joy to see her beam that a book had been written just for her.” In fine condition, Smith’s works are now very rare on the market. ❧ Smith, 200 Books (2000), pp. 190-91, where the text of the poem is reproduced.

Pieces by Creeley, Robert

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Title: Pieces
Author: Creeley, Robert
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Creeley on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95). Yellow buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A unified collection of poetry from Creeley, one with "more flexibility and informality of tone and a darting variation in feeling" than his previous collections.

Adventures in Tomorrow; A Galaxy of Science Fiction Stories by Crossen, Kendell Foster

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Title: Adventures in Tomorrow; A Galaxy of Science Fiction Stories
Author: Crossen, Kendell Foster
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. Edited by Kendell Foster Crossen. Second Printing. Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally rubbed at the surface and edges. Blue cloth, faded from a tidemark on the lower inch of the boards, with yellow ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges, clean internally. An anthology of fifteen stories about the future from the likes of Asimov, Boucher, Bradbury, Sturgeon, Kuttner, van Vogt, among others.

NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS by Wilbur, Richard

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Title: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS
Author: Wilbur, Richard
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. INSCRIBED BY WILBUR to director Clint Atkinson who also taught at Wesleyan University: "For Clinton Atkinson/ From another old Wesleyan hand/ Dick Wilbur/ Cummington 2000" on free front endpaper.

WATER-RESOURCES RECONNAISSANCE OF THE OUACHITA MOUNTAINS ARKANSAS by WSP 1809 - J -- Albin, Donald R.

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Title: WATER-RESOURCES RECONNAISSANCE OF THE OUACHITA MOUNTAINS ARKANSAS
Author: WSP 1809 - J -- Albin, Donald R.
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1965. Softcover. USGS 1965. Wrappers, very good condition (rubber stamp on cover). Complete with all maps and plates. .

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