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1736 THEATRUM MACHINARUM FULLY ILLUSTRATED OVERSIZED FOLIO antique
1736 THEATRUM MACHINARUM FULLY ILLUSTRATED OVERSIZED FOLIO antique
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Tileman van der Horst
Theatrum Machinarum Universale of Keurige verzameling van verscheide en zeer fraaie Waterwerken , Schutsluizen , Waterkeringen , Ophaal- en draai Bruggen
In het koper gebracht door Jan Schenk
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk ; 1736
14 pages of text and 25 numbered copper engravings
On thick, heavy paper, wide-margined and internally fine and clean.
Size 13 by 21.5"
The double-page engravings are 21 by 24"
The triple folded engravings are 21 by 35".
4 times folded engraving 21 by 44"
Original cardboard binding with leather corners.
Covers are worn.
Text in Dutch
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"Tileman van der Horst and Jan Schenk produced the Theatrum Machinarium Univesale, one of the most celebrated works on the construction of all those elements so necessary to keeping life dry in Amsterdam (the place of the book's publication).
It was perhaps the most important work then produced on dikes, sluices, dams, weirs, canals and swing-bridges, the very elements of existence in Holland. Jan Schenck was the engraver of this work, which may also be the most accurate and the most sumptuously illustrated book of its type in Holland in the 18th century - the technical aspects of the rendering was just superb."
- Brunet V,1082 - Graesse VII, 258.
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