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Technology/Engineering
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Moving The Obelisk
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FONTANA, Domenico. Della Trasportatione dell Obelisco Vaticano et delle Fabriche di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V. Rome, Domenico Basa, 1590.
First edition of the work recording the greatest engineering feat of the 16th century, the spectacular transportation of the Sixtine obelisk around which Bernini would build his Vatican portico, and one of the masterpieces of Baroque book illustration.
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Rare Illustrated Work On Mining
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FRATTA ET MONTALBANO, Marchese Marco Antonio. Pratica Minerale. Bologna, 1678.
Rare first edition of this handsomely illustrated textbook on chemical and mining operations, with much on the development on furnace construction and smelting techniques.
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Extremely Rare Satirical Print Of a Vehicular Utopia
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[after GRANT, Charles Jameson (British, active 1829-1866)]. “The Century of Invention. Anno Domini 2000. Or the March of Aerostation, Steam and Perpetual Motion.”. London ?, c. 1834.
Extremely rare, separately-issued caricature printed on linen satirizing the early nineteenth-century British love affair with transportation.
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