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Engineering - mills] - VAN ZYL, Johannes - Theatrum machinarum universale, of Groot algemeen moolen-boek, behelzende de beschryving en afbeeldingen van allerhande soorten van moolens (...) nevens eene naauwkeurige verbeelding in verscheidene platen van de Amsterdamsche modder-moolens (...) in’t koper gebragt door Jan Schenk . I. Deel (all published). Amsterdam, P. Schenk, 1761, large folio, cont. half calf (traces of wear), spine on 5 raised bands (rubbed, def. at head & tail), [8]-18-[1-1 bl.] pp. (pp. 13-14 bound after p. 18). Nice uncut large paper copy in its 1st binding.
New ed. (1st 1734) of this monument of 18th-c. civil engineering in the Netherlands. Engr. ills : title-vign. by J . Wandelaar , front. showing the invention of the saw mill with a laudatory poem for C.C. van Uytgeest and 63 double-page plates (numb. 1-56 (= 55, pl. 37 & 38 on 1 sheet), tabula I-VI, tab. I-II) showing a wonderful collection of designs for various kinds of mills by J. Schenk (1698-1752). The publisher P. Schenk in 1737 added as a 2nd part T. van den Horst’s “Theatrum machinarum universale, of Verzameling van (...) waterwerken”, but this was not reprinted in 1761. Title in red & black. Bookpl. and ownership entry Vicomte Vilain XIIII . Ref . Bierens de Haan 5482. STCN (6). BnF. Not in BL. We join : Id. - Theatrum machinarum universale of Groot algemeen moolen-boek (....). Amst., P. Schenk, s.d., 4to, cont. red half roan (rubbed), spine on 3 raised bands, 80-4 pp. Very rare accompanying publ. with descriptions of the pls (56 + tables I-VI and II (entitled “Verklaring van een zy-tweyndery”). Ref. Not in STCN.