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Fontana (Carlo). Utilissimo Trattato dell Acque Correnti Diviso In Tre Libri..., 1st edition, Rome: Giovanni Francesco Buagni, 1696, engraved portrait frontispiece (relaid), plus 79 engraved plates (2 folding, slightly toned), woodcut device to title and final leaf plus woodcut headpieces and initials within text, occasional browning, light spotting throughout, circular scarring as a consequence of a paper thinning to lower right edge of title page and to verso of CC3, tear into text to inner margin of C4, later calf-backed, marbled boards, spine repaired, hinges and joints cracked, corners bumped, 4to (Quantity: 1) Brunet II 1329; Berlin Cat. 3613; Brunet II 1329; Cicognara 915; Riccardi I 465 ('rare and valued both from a bibliographical point of view for the elegance of the plates and from a scientific perspective').