Klubbat för:

15000 SEK

Estimate

12 000-15 000 SEK

Description

METALWORKING. BIRINGUCCIO, VANNOCCIO. Pirotechnia. Li diece libri della pirotechnia... Vinegia (Venice, Giouan Padoano for Curtio di Naup) 1550.
Small 4:o (207x1552 mm.). (8), 1-167, (1) ll. Title within figurative woodcut frame, 84 woodcuts in text, woodcut initials, last leaf with woodcut printers device.
Contemporary vellum, somewhat worn, lacks ties, later spine title, new inner doublures and endpapers. Manuscript title on upper edge. A few wormholes ll. 166 to the end. Some dampstaining in upper outer corner in the beginning and at the end.
Vannoccio (Vannocio) Biringuccio (1480- about 1539), Italian metallurgist.
Compare Dorbon-Aine 368, Duveen p. 79 ("...famous book on metallurgy and mining, containing interesting chapters on alchemy,...").
First published in 1540, the present copy is the second edition.
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:

6038

Date:

2016-06-21