( 1620 - 1685 )
In 4° (222x160 mm). Volume I [28], 356 pp. - Volume II ° [12], 184 pp. Two Volumes bounded in one. Full coeval parchment. 5 ribs and leather gusset with title on spine. With 6 [of 7] woodcut plates folded out of the text and 44 numbered plates engraved in wood in the first volume and 39 in the second [in the text], many of them with full page illustrations. Woodcut portrait of the author on each volume. Fine example. Definitive edition, which recast together the two main works of the famous architect and military engineer Capra (c. 1610-1683), "The new Family Architecture" (Bologna, 1678) and "The new Military Architecture" (Bologna, 1683). Capra's observations on machines, from hydraulic to lifting, from mills to machines for domestic use, to reach scientific instruments such as the "baculo mensorio", the "astronomical rod" and the "compass" are particularly important. ". See Fowler, nos. 79-80. Berlin Catalog, 2752 and 3534. Riccardi, I, 234. Michel & / Michel, II, p. 38. Cicognara, 461. Millard, Italian and Spanish books. n. 27, pp. 99-102. Comolli, IV, p. 203.
