Hydraulics. - Barattieri (Giovanni Battista) Architettura d’Acque…, part 1, only, of 2, second edition, half title, woodcut  illustrations in text, 2 double page, depicting the Po & Adda rivers course, lacking folding plate at rear, some foxing throughout, minor tearing and creasing, scattered water staining, early ownership note to pastedown, maniculae, contemporary carta rustica, stained and rubbed, hinges started, [IT\ICCU\LO1E\028652; STC XVII SEC., 72; Riccardi I, 74; Singer III, 315], folio, L. L. Bazachi, Piacenza 1699.  *** “The best example in our period of a practical scientific work on the problems of river regulation” (Singer). From the collected edition of Barattieri’s most important work on Hydraulics. The two parts were first published in 1656 and 1663. Barattieri was engineer to the Duke of Parma and his work on practical hydraulics is based on Castelli’s and Corsini’s works.