illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1972,U.166.1-26
- Description
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Isaac de Caus, "Nouvelle Invention de lever l'eau plus haut que sa source avec quelques machines mouvantes par le moyen de l'eau, et un discours de la conduit d'icelle" (London) 1644; containing 26 prints, numbered I to XXVI, demonstrating hydraulic machinery and other water-powered inventions. Together with letterpress treatise illustrated with woodcut figures, letterpress titlepage (bound before the plates), and foreword. All sheets inlaid and bound in green at the BM bindery.
Etchings; woodcuts
- Production date
- 1644
- Dimensions
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Height: 401 millimetres
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Width: 262 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page (including inlaid margin))
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Nouvelle Invention de lever l'eau plus haut que sa source
- Acquisition date
- 1859 (transferred as duplicate in 1889)
- Acquisition notes
- Red BL stamp "14 Ju 59"
1889, duplicate transfer stamp
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.166.1-26
