Mechanick-powers: or, The mistery of nature and art unvail'd. : Shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines, in removing and raising bodies of vast weight with little strength, or force; and also the making of machines, or engines, for raising of water, draining of grounds, and several other uses. Together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use, and the making of clock-work and other engins. A work pleasant and profitable for all sorts of men, from the highest to the lowest degree: and never treated of in English but once before, and that but briefly. The whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts. By Ven. Mandey and J. Moxon, philomat.
1696
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Mechanick-powers: or, The mistery of nature and art unvail'd. : Shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines, in removing and raising bodies of vast weight with little strength, or force; and also the making of machines, or engines, for raising of water, draining of grounds, and several other uses. Together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use, and the making of clock-work and other engins. A work pleasant and profitable for all sorts of men, from the highest to the lowest degree: and never treated of in English but once before, and that but briefly. The whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts. By Ven. Mandey and J. Moxon, philomat.
Created/published
London : Printed for the authors, and sold by Ven. Mandey, next door to the Salmon in Bloomsbury Market, and James Moxon at the Atlas in Warwick-Lane, and R. Clavel at the Peacock in Fleet-street, 1696.
Description
[12], 315, [5] p., [17] folded leaves of plates : diagrams ; (4to)
Associated name
Mandey, Venterus, author.
Moxon, J. (James)
Moxon, J. (James)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001-2002. The Reader Revealed (catalog entry 57)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), M418
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R4388
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R4388
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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M418
Folger-specific note
155636. -1plate. Sprinkled calf binding with gilt tooled edges of boards; sprinkled edges. Manuscript marks, including price ("10s:") on front free endpaper. Lacking preliminary sig.a (i.e. table of contents), which is supplied in photostat from bookseller