Architectura curiosa nova, exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta

Title Variants

Uniform: Architectura curiosa nova

By

Böckler, Georg Andreas.

Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703
Aubry, Abraham.
Schwan, Balthazar, 1624
Fürst, Paul, ca 1605-1666
Gerhard, Christoph, 1624-1681

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Norimbergæ, Impensis Pauli Fürsten, biblio-technopolae, typis Christophori Gerhardi, [1664]

Notes

Paulus Fürst's dedication dated 16/6 March 1664.

Pagination, pt. 1: [10], 30 p., 4 plates. Pt. 2: [2], 13, [1] p., 71 figures on [44] plates. Pt. 3: [2], 22 p., 120 figures on [116] plates (the last folded). Pt. 4: [2], 26 p., 36 plates.

Added engraved t.-p. by Abraham Aubry. Plate 100, pt. 3, signed by Barthazar Schwan as engraver; it and plate 103 appeared previously as plates 51 and 1 in Jacobus Strada's Desseins artificiaulx de toutes sortes des moulins (Frankfurt, 1617-18). Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Parts 2-4 have special added t.-p.'s.

Subjects

17th century , Buildings , Designs , Designs and plans , Early works to 1800 , Engravings , Europe , Fountains , Gardens , Germany

Call Number

NA9400 .B6

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41283
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/24001684