BESSON, Jacques (16th c.). Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum . Edited by Giulio Paschali. Lyons: Barthlemy Vincent, 1582. 2 o (410 x 273 mm). Architectural woodcut title-border, full-page woodcut diagram on A4r, 60 full-page engravings. (Some minor marginal soiling). Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners worn, later endpapers). Provenance : Owner's stamp printed in red on title-page (2 broken hammers between a hand holding a dagger within a shield); Charles F. Cox (bookplate). Later edition (first Paschali Latin edition), with the explanatory text printed on plate versos. The impressions are noticeably more worn than the 1578 edition, with the exception of nos. 17 and 51, which use the plates from the first edition instead of the Boyvin replacements. Giulio Paschali also prepared an Italian translation of Besson's work, published by Vincent in the same year. Adams B-839; Brunet I, 830; cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 56 n ; Norman 228.
BESSON, Jacques (16th c.). Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum . Edited by Giulio Paschali. Lyons: Barthlemy Vincent, 1582. 2 o (410 x 273 mm). Architectural woodcut title-border, full-page woodcut diagram on A4r, 60 full-page engravings. (Some minor marginal soiling). Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners worn, later endpapers). Provenance : Owner's stamp printed in red on title-page (2 broken hammers between a hand holding a dagger within a shield); Charles F. Cox (bookplate). Later edition (first Paschali Latin edition), with the explanatory text printed on plate versos. The impressions are noticeably more worn than the 1578 edition, with the exception of nos. 17 and 51, which use the plates from the first edition instead of the Boyvin replacements. Giulio Paschali also prepared an Italian translation of Besson's work, published by Vincent in the same year. Adams B-839; Brunet I, 830; cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 56 n ; Norman 228.
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