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050 00 $aTJ144$b.C37
100 1 $aCaus, Isaac de,$d1590-1648.
245 10 $aNew and Rare Inventions / of Water-Works /$bShewing the Easiest waies / to Raise Water Higher / then the Spring. / By which Invention / The Perpetual Motion is proposed / Many hard Labours performed / And Varieties of Motions and Sounds Produced / A Work both Vsefull Profitable and Delightfull for all / Sorts of People. /$cFirst Written in French, by Isaak de Cavs / a late Famous Engenier: And now Translated / into English by John Leak. /
260 $aLondon,$bPrinted by Joseph Moxon: and Sold at his / Shop in Cornhill, at the Signe of Atlas.$c1659. /
300 $a3 p. l., 34 p.$billus., XXVI pl. (part fold.)$c32 cm.
500 $aSignatures: 1 l., B-K², L¹ ([E₁] lettered D)
500 $aEngraved title within architectural border. Caption and running title: The Theorie of the Conduct of Water.
500 $aTranslation of Isaac de Caus' "Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau", 1644, the text and plates of which were based on Salomon de Caus' "Les raisons des forces movvantes auec diuerses machines", Francfort, 1615. Includes descriptions and illustrations of various musical automata and of a hydraulic barrel-organ.
500 $aLeather binding, stamped with arms of an earl (Coningsby?) with motto: Vestigia nulla retrorsum.
650 0 $aHydraulic engineering$xEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aAutomata.
650 0 $aFountains.
650 0 $aBarrel organ, Hydraulic.
700 1 $aCaus, Salomon de,$dd. 1626.
700 1 $aLeak, John,$dfl. 1640,$etr.