Lot n° 155
Estimation :
400 - 500
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 350EUR
CASTELLI, Benedetto.
Della Misura dell'acque correnti. Abbate Urbani Sacchetti. Bologna, H. H. del Dozza, 1660. 1 vol. in-4. Contemporary basane, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, crowned cipher in the corners, triple gilt fillet in the frame, spine decorated with the repeated cipher, gilt title. Frontispiece, [9]ff, 184pp.
Work illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and some woodcut figures in-text.
Third edition partly original, printed in Bologna from the 17th century.
The original edition dates from 1628. "Traité de la mesure des eaux courantes (...) volume peu commun".
Followed, in continuous pagination, by : Demostrazioni geometriche della misura. Bologna, Heredi del Dozza, 1659.
> Copy of Julie-Lucie d'Angennes, duchess of Sainte-Maure de Montausier. "Appointed in 1661 governess of the Grand Dauphin and the Children of France, then Lady of Honour of the Queen in 1664, she favoured the love affairs of Louis XIV with Mademoiselle de la Vallière and with Madame de Montespan".
O.H.R. pl. 451. Brunet, I, 1625.
Lacks headpieces, rubs to corners and spines, stains to binding.
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