Author: CAUS, SALOMON DE.
Title: Les raisons des forces movvantes, Avec diverses Machines tant utiles que plaisantes: Ausquelles sont adjoints plusieurs desseins de Grotes & Fontaies, Augementées de plusieurs figures, avec le discours sur chacune. [2nd enlarged & revised edition].
Description: Paris, Hierosme Droüart, 1624. 3 parts in 1 volume. (6),46 fol.;(2),28 fol.;19,(3) pp. 2 cop.-engr. title-pages, 32 text-ills. (mostly woodcut, some copper-engraved), 7 single-page woodcut plates & 60 single-page copper-engraved plates. Blind & raised roan over marbled panels. Folio. - Covers very sl. worn along the edges, very light waterstain in the lower-left corner (hardly noticable); small wormhole minimally affecting the fold of the last section.* This is the very rare 2nd enlarged / revised edition with extra text (problèmes) and 11 extra plates more than the first edition. Especially part two has been enlaged. Very interesting work on hydraulics, waterworks, clocks, fountains and organs. Many elaborate full page plates.

Keywords: Clocks Technic Hydraulic Landscape architecture Fountain Klokken ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / VII Techniek Hydraulisch Tuinarchitektuur Fonteinen