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Author:

Sturm, Leonhard Christoph, 1669-1719, author.

Title:

Vollständige Mühlen Baukunst : darinnen werden, I. Alle Grundreguln so zu der Praxi nöthig die doch gar wenigen recht bekant sind, treülich angewiesen : II. Die Vortheile die man bey Anlegung der Wasserräder alle Sorten von Machinen zutreiben in acht nehmen muss, auf den höchsten Grad der Vollkommenheit gebracht : III. Was insonderheit an Korn- Graupen- Papier- Ohl- Pulfer- Säg- Steinschneide- Bohr- Schleiff- Sensen- Kessel- Eisendrat- Hächsel- und Dreschmühlen zuverbessern aufrichtig entdecket ... / von Leonhard Christoph Sturm.

Edition:

[First edition.]

Publisher:

Verlegt von Jeremias WolffKunsthändlern,

Copyright Date:

Ano 1718.

Description:

[2], [4], 35, [1] pages, [51] leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings, woodcuts) ; 34 cm (folio)

Subject:

Mills and mill-work--Early works to 1800.
Milling machinery--Early works to 1800.
Papermaking machinery--Early works to 1800.
Hydraulic machinery--Early works to 1800.
Water-wheels--Early works to 1800.
Civil engineering--Early works to 1800.
Papermaking machinery--In art--Early works to 1800.
Early printed books--Augsburg--Augsburg--18th century--Specimens.
Mechanical engineering--18th century--Pictorial works.
Milling machinery.
Papermaking machinery.
Early works.
Leather bindings (Binding)
Half bindings (Binding)
Rebacking (Binding)
Paste paper.
Kozo fibers (Paper)
Engravings (prints)
Woodcuts (prints)
Booksellers' labels (Provenance)
Ink stamps (Provenance)
Platemarks.
Signatures (Binder's notations)
Black letter types (Type evidence)
Stained edges (Binding)

Other Authors:

Wolf, Jeremias, 1663?-1724, publisher.

Other Titles:

Vollständige Mühlen-Baukunst.

Notes:

Engraved title page (facsimile in Hunter); woodcut head- and tailpieces; 1 woodcut illustration on page 31, depicting a mechanical device. Note on engraved plates: Total of 51 full-page engraved plates; plate mark measuring 31 x 19 cm. The plates are numbered I-XLII [1-42], with the following insertions in the sequence: XVIA [16A], XIXA-C [19A-C], XXIA [21A], XXIIA-B [22A-B], XXVA [25A], XXVIA [26A]. Plates XXIIB-XXVI [22B-26], with descriptive text pages 14-21, illustrate papermaking machinery, including both the stamper and the Hollander beater. Plate XXVA [25A] is the earliest illustration of a Hollander beater; cf. Hunter. Signatures: )(² A-I² ([51] engraved leaves of plates). Originally issued 1717 as part 18 of the author's Der auserlessneste und nach den Regeln der antiquen Bau-Kunst ... verneuerte Goldmann, Als der rechtschaffenste Bau-Meister, oder, Die gantze Civil- Bau-Kunst. Cf. Deutsche Drucke des Barock, B 1834. (Also called pt. 19; cf. Avery Lib. (2nd ed.), v. 17, p. 752). Special Collections copy: Title page is re-backed with a neatly closed tear. IaU

Summary:

"First edition of this extremely rare and little known treatise which seeks to describe the advantages of employing new inventions of mechanical engineering to process various functions. Treatise on mills and hydraulic machinery, waterwheels, with an early depiction of the papermaking process (plates 22B-25). Mills are shown that are designed by Sturm for processing corn [plates 16, 19A] or grapes [22A], threshing devices." --Bookseller's description.

Indexed by:

GV 1700-1910, v. 142, page 144
Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking, page 25

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136493099

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)