Conti´s "Metallorum ac metallicorum..." 1665
Klubbat för:
10000 SEK
Utropspris
6 000-7 000 SEK
Beskrivning
METALLURGY. COMITIBUS (CONTI), LUDOVICI DE. Metallorum ac metallicorum naturae operum ex ortophysicis fundamentis recens elucidatio qua eoeum omnium principia, causae, proprietates, generationes, generationumque modiapertré ac fideliter enucleantur. Indeque artis chemicae,... Coloniae Agrippinae (Cologne, apud Joannem Busaeum) 1665.
8:o. (10), 11-286, (2 blank) pp. Title printed in red and black.
Contemporary vellum, slightly worn, foxed, small crack in lower part of upper joint, somewhat damaged spinelabel, red edges. A few marginal annotations, underlinings in red. Old annotation on first endpaper and last blank leaf. Bookplate.
First edition. Ferguson I, p. 173, VD17 23:295217H.
From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.
Auktionsnummer:
6234
Datum:
2015-12-15