LANA TERZI, Francesco (1631-87). Prodromo ouero saggio di alcune inuentioni nouve premesso all' arte maestra, Brescia: Per li Rizzardi, 1670. Small 2° (296 x 210mm.). 20 engraved plates, woodcut ornaments. (A few small holes and erased stamps on title, inner gutter of most leaves with small stitch marks, lower margin of final text leaf torn away, small hole in Z 1 affecting one letter, light mainly marginal browning). 19th-century half vellum and patterned boards. FIRST EDITION. Norman 1272: "Lana Terzi's Prodromo is best known for presenting the earliest concept of flight derived from demonstrable aerostatic principles"; Dibner 176; Wellcome III, p. 440.
LANA TERZI, Francesco (1631-87). Prodromo ouero saggio di alcune inuentioni nouve premesso all' arte maestra, Brescia: Per li Rizzardi, 1670. Small 2° (296 x 210mm.). 20 engraved plates, woodcut ornaments. (A few small holes and erased stamps on title, inner gutter of most leaves with small stitch marks, lower margin of final text leaf torn away, small hole in Z 1 affecting one letter, light mainly marginal browning). 19th-century half vellum and patterned boards. FIRST EDITION. Norman 1272: "Lana Terzi's Prodromo is best known for presenting the earliest concept of flight derived from demonstrable aerostatic principles"; Dibner 176; Wellcome III, p. 440.
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