Statement of responsibility: in Druck zusamen geordnett durch Henricum Zeisingk der Architectur studiosum.
"Eine Machina dadurch man die alten Hadern stosset zum Pappiermachen, wie Numer 23. zuersehen": pt. 3, p. 63-64 and plate 23.
Engraved title pages (pts. 2-4: principal text printed letterpress within engraved frame; pt. 3: printed in red and black).
Deutsche Drucke des Barock, C210-215 cites later issues of pts. 2-3, 6 and earlier issue of pt. 4. Berlin cites earlier issues of pts. 1-4 and later issue of pt. 6.
Colophon reads in part, pt. 1: Leipzig ... Gedruckt bey Georg Liegern... ; pt. 2: Zum andern Mahl gedruckt, zu Altenburg in Meissen ... ; pt. 3-4: Gedruckt zu Altenburg in Meissen ... (Original issues have name of printer in Altenburg: Gedruckt ... durch Johann Meuschken).
Signatures: pt. 1: a-b⁴ A-2C⁴; pt. 2: A-Q⁴; pt. 3: ):(⁴ A-M⁴ (M4 blank); pt. 4: [superscript pi]a⁴ a⁴ A-L⁴; pt. 5: )(⁴ 2)(² A-N⁴; pt. 6: a⁴ A-O⁴.
Content: Pt. 1: [64], 159, [1] p., XXV leaves of plates; pt. 2: [8], 111 [i.e. 115], [5] p., 25 leaves of plates; pt. 3: [8], 91, [5] p., 26 leaves of plates (some folded); pt. 4: [16], 85, [3] p., 28 leaves of plates (some folded); pt. 5: [12], 102, [2] p., 24 leaves of plates (some folded); pt. 6: [8], 110+ p., 24 leaves of plates (some folded). Error in paging in pt. 2: nos. 109-111 repeated following p. 112.
Content: Illustrations: 158 prints : etching ; plate mark 13 x 24 cm. or smaller. Comprise 6 title pages and 152 textual ill. Most in pt. 1 signed HZ f. (i.e. Heinrich Zeising, cf. Nagler, Monogrammisten, III, no. 1740). Many in pts. 4-6 signed: AB f. (i.e. Andreas Bretschneider). Many in pts. 1, 4-6 signed: HG exc. (i.e. Henning Grosse; plate VII, pt. 1 signed H. Gross Jun. exc). Ill. repeated and altered from various sources: Agostino Ramelli's Diverse et artificiose machine (Paris, 1588); Jacques Besson's Theatre des instruments (Lyon, 1578); Vittorio Zonca's Novo theatro di machine et edificii (Padua, 1607) and Vitruvius' Vitruuius Teutsch (Nürnberg, 1548). Plate 23, pt. 3 is after Zonca. References: Beck, Theodor. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Machinebaues ..., p. 391 ff.
Content: Grosse's devices in colophon, pts. 1,2-4: 3 prints from 2 blocks : woodcut ; 75 x 52 mm. and 63 x 50 mm. (2). Subject: Hercules, with monogram HG and motto: Sic itur ad astra; armorial device (rampant lion on shield, etc.) -- Woodcut head- and tailpieces; ornamental initials.
Publications: "Vom rechten Grund vnd Verstand, Wag vnd Gewichts, darauss die scharffsinning Erfindung aller künstlichen Instrument, vnd Machination fundirt ... ": Pt. 1, p. [13-64] (1st group). Originally published in: Der furnembsten ... mathematischen vnd machanischen Künst eygentlicher Bericht ... / in Truck verordnet durch Gualtherum H. Riuium (Nuremberg, 1547).
Statement of responsibility: "Der fürtreffliche vnd hochgelehrte Herr Hieronymus Cardanus ... schreibet in seinem 9. Buch, Von mancherley wunderbahren Sachen, am 47. Capittel, mit folgenden Worten": pt. 1, p. 110-159. Translation of De varietate rerum, liber 9, caput 47.
Publications: "Mühlordnung": pt. 3, p. 75-91.
Citation/reference: "Musica mathematica, das ist, Das Fundament der allerlieblichsten Kunst der Musicæ ... in deutzsch gegeben, durch M. Abrahamum Bartolum ... " (pt. 6, p. [89]-174) has special t.p.