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Loose Leaf. Zustand: New. Reproduction. Original title: Wilton Garden, plate 1 German: Wilton Garden, Teller 1 French: Jardin Wilton, assiette 1 Spanish: Wilton Garden, placa 1 High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Met. Creation period: 17th century (ca. 1640). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No. …

Folio, pp. (vi), 34, and 26 engraved plates of hydraulic machinery. Title within double ruled border, 35 woodcut illustrations in the text. Some light soiling, short tear in B1 without loss, small and pale dampstain in margin of some leaves, a few plates printed on smaller paper and with uncut fore-edges but plate IX on larger paper and fore-edge folded in but still with consequent slight loss of the engraved area (as in the NYPL copy). Contemporary panelled sheep (nicely rebacked, endpapers sometime replaced). Early signature of J.(?) Morrison at top of title, another early signature deleted in ink, armorial bookplate of Baron Barrymore. Second edition in English, a translation using the same plates of Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau (London, 1644), which was in turn adapted from Salomon de Caus's Les raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (Frankfurt, 1615), an important work for the development of technology and particularly that of the steam engine. Isaac de Caus was a garden designer, architect and engineer. He was born in Dieppe about 1589, a relative, possibly nephew, of the French garden designer and hydraulic engineer Salomon de Caus (c. 1576?1626), architect and engineer to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, in Heidelberg. Isaac de Caus was working in England by the early 1620s and in 1634 became naturalised here. He was a pioneer in the construction of life-sized automata, several of which are illustrated in this book which also includes descriptions of a fire engine, various pumps, several types of musical organs, fountains, several clocks, a lathe and a sluice. He died in Paris and was buried in 1648 in the city's Huguenot cemetery. This book was one of the first atlases of machinery published in England. This edition is a reissue of the 1659 edition with the same collation, plates and setting of type but with a new letterpress title-page (the earlier one was engraved). It is extremely rare, with only 2 copies recorded in ESTC, both in North America; E.P. Goldschmidt had a copy in Catalogue 150, and there are no complete copies in auction records. Norman 417 (1659 edition).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition in English. Isaac Caus's text and illustrations were adapted from his uncle or father Salomon de Caus's Les raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (Frankfurt 1615), an important work for the development of technology and particularly that of the steam engine. Isaac de Caus was a pioneer in the construction of life-sized automata, several of which are illustrated here. The present treatise also includes descriptions of a fire engine, various pumps, several types of musical organs, and a sluice. He collaborated with Inigo Jones on the design of Wilton House and its gardens. Last copy at auction ours, before that 1998 Christies. Rare, no copy in the trade. Not in Harvard or Yale, Stanford.…