Klubbat för:

12000 SEK

Estimate

15 000-20 000 SEK

Description

FRATTA MONTALBANO, MARCO ANTONIO DELLA. (Pratica minerala trattato..., Bologna, gli Manolesi, 1678, lacking head title).

Small 4:o (216x161 mm.). (6, lacking 3 leaves: head title, leaf beginning "Materie contenue..." and leaf beginning "Pratica minerale), 1-39 (Catascopie minerale), (1 blank), 1-183 (pp. 129-130 omitted at pagination), (1) pp. 29 engravings, of which 22 full-page, in text (lacks engraved frontispiece).
Contemporary vellum, worn and soiled, blank spine. Some foxing and spotting, the part-title to Catascopia with old library stamp and old signature.

Duveen p. 229. First edition of this very rare work. In our copy the Catascopie is bound first. The illustrations showing chemical, matallurgical, and mining procedures.
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.
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Auktionsnummer:

6236

Date:

2015-12-15