L' arte di rendere i fiumi navigabili in varii modi, con altre nuove inventioni, e varii altri segreti divisa in tre parti ...
This is an Italian treatise of 1696 by Cornelis Meijer, printed at Giovanni Giacomo Komarek's press, on making rivers navigable by canals, locks, and other engineering devices. The engravings show ships hauled over ground on rollers beside a canal lock, a fortified town with its walls, a river crossing with boats, a water wheel driving a pump, and barges on a broad waterway, drawn in fine line with dense cross-hatching for shadow. A designer could draw on the clear plan-and-elevation layouts and the small figures placed for scale.
