CAUS, ISAAC DE. New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works Shewing the Easiest waies to Raise Water higher then the Spring. Translated from French into English by John Leak. London: Joseph Moxon, 1659. Engraved architectural title (Johnson 64), 26 numbered engraved plates and numerous woodcuts in text. Folio, modern quarter vellum; first 7 leaves and plates repaired at inner margin. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, a translation of the Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau (London: Moxon, 1644), illustrated with the same plates. Isaac Caus's text and illustrations were adapted from Salomon de Caus's Les raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (Frankfurt 1615), an important work for the development of technology and particularly that of the steam engine. Architect and engineer to the Elector Palatine in Heidelberg, Caus was a pioneer in the construction of life-sized automata, several of which are illustrated here. The present treatise also includes descriptions of a fire engine, various pumps, several types of musical organs, and a sluice. Wing C-1527; Norman 417.