Engeström: Guide du... mines de Suede 1796

SWEDISH MINES. ENGESTRÖM, GUSTAVE D´. Guide du voyageur aux carrieres et mines de Svede, a l´usage des etrangeres curieux, des mineurs et mineralogues. Stockholm (chez Joh. A. Varlbohm) 1796.

Small 8:o. (3), 4-110, (10, last 2 blank) pp. Large folding engraved map (some foxing or minor staining, a few tears in the folding).
Later (20th century) blank wrappers, somewhat worn. Some marginal staining or browning, minor foxing.

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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