Michelini (Famiano) Trattato della Direzione de'Fiumi..., first edition, half-title, title in red & black, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, 9 folding engraved plates, wide margins, signature M misbound, dedication leaf soiled, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, spine gilt, lacking label, spine ends and corners worn, [Bibliotheca Mechanica p.224], Florence, Stamperia della Stella, 1664 § Sacco (Bernado) De italicarum rerum varietate et elegantia, libri X..., title with woodcut device and contemporary ink inscription "Ex libris Antonii Halley Prof. Regii." to head, water-stained, large engraved armorial bookplate of Nicolai Joseph Foucault, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, rubbed and stained, [EDIT 16 CNCE 31113], Pavia, G.Bartoli, 1587, 4to (2)
⁂ The first concerns rivers and their flow, techniques for altering their course, methods of flood prevention etc., by the professor of mathematics at Pisa. The second describes the region of Pavia near Milan.
Antoine Halley (1595-1675), professor at Caen.
Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, 1st Marquis de Magny (1643-1721), statesman and book-collector.
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