[Mechanica] Theatrum Machinarum Novum Exhibens [G.A. Böckler]

Aquarias, Alatas, Iumantarias, Manuarias; Pedibus ac ponderibus versatiles, plures et diversas molas (...) per Georgium Andream Bocklerum (...) Ex Germania in Latium recens translatum Opera R.D. Henrici Schmitz. Cologne. Paulus Fürst. 1662.

Small folio, half leather, rebound using original material, new endpapers, illustrated frontispiece by V. Sommer after G. Böckler, title page with small vignette, (8),55 pp. and complete with 154 numbered full-page copperplates. Several signed Balt. Sch. Title page with restored tear, water stains throughout the book. Scarce. Böckler was an architect and engineer, working in Nuremberg; the Theatrum Machinarum Novum was the standard work in Germany regarding hydraulic machines, windmills and pumps.