Ottavio (1550) Strada Sold at Auction Prices

Strada, Ottavio

Manuscript album entitled, "Variae ac faciles Molendina construendi inventiones Pacis et Belli tempore admodum necessarie, quibus diversa instrumentorum genera sunt adiuncta ad elevandam cum magna facilitate aquam ab infimis partibus ad sublimiores et alia Fontium Aedificiorum et Hortulorum usui, et iucundditati servientia multeq. Aliae commoditates & utilitates quae ex aque motu haberi possunt nunquam alie visae." Comprising 100 drawings of designs for mills and other machines for raising water, 101 pages (12 x 9 1/4 in.; 317 x 233 mm), [Florence, ca. 1580s]; some dampstaining at head of first eight pages, light marginal foxing, some scattered wormholes on first nine pages; three stamps on title-page, one obscured, one with initials "H. F. 1770," the other with initials "H. F. 1834"; contemporary black morocco, covers with borders ruled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in eight compartments with floral tool gilt edges; worming abrasion and some repair, joints cracked, new endpapers