BOECKLER, George Andreas.
Architectura Curiosa Nova, Exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium. 3. Magnum amoenissimorum fontium. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas. 5. Cum auctario figuram elegantissimarum. In Latinam linguam translata per J.Chr. Sturm.
Nuremberg, Paulus Fürst, [1664]. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With richly engraved frontispiece, 4 titles within typographical woodcut borders, the first printed in red and black, and 200 full-page engraved plates of fountain architecture and hydraulic engineering in fountains. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. [10], 30; [2], 13, [1 blank]; [2], 22; [2], 26 pp.
€ 15,000
First Latin edition of Die Lustreiche Bau- und Wasser-Kunst, a richly illustrated text book on hydraulic engineering in architecture by the German engineer and architect to the city of Nuremberg, George Andreas Böckler, who lived and worked in the second half of the 17th century. The work is divided into four parts, the fifth part on title relating to the rich illustration.
The first part treats the technical side of hydraulic engineering in fountains, with numerous explanatory figures on 4 plates. The second and third part treat fountain architecture, with respectively 71 illustrations on 44 plates, and 120 illustrations on 116 plates, showing all kinds of more or less elaborately designed fountains and water freezes. The fourth part then is devoted to designing fountains within the larger plans of garden architecture, with views of houses and gardens, several with a garden-plan added, on 36 full-page engraved plates.
Fine copy of a famous work, showing only a few slight traces of use. Berlin Kat. 3579; Thieme-Becker IV, 178.
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