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Lust-Stück der Gärten. Parterres ou Broderies des Jardins. Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [1728], [1740s].

Oblong folio (245 x 375 mm). 2 engr. title pages and 22 + 20 engr. plates by Pfeffel after Danreiter. - (Bound with) II: Steingruber, Johann David. Architecture civile. Erster Theil [= all published]. Architecturally engr. title-page, engr. preface (misbound before title-page), and 25 numbered engr. plates by J. D. Ringlin after Steingruber; explanatory text engraved within the plate in German and French. - (Bound with) III: Charmeton, Georges. Plans de divers edifices et corniches choisies. Abriße unterschiedener Gebälcke und Kronwercke. 12 engr. plates, including the title-page. Contemporary German half vellum over paste boards and beige paper covers (a little foxed); slightly faded red stained gilt lettered label tooled directly onto spine. Red speckled edges. A remarkable sammelband of three rare architectural and garden ornament works (the first in two parts), all of which were published by the important Augsburg print publisher Johann Andreas Pfeffel. I: First and only edition of a very scarce ornamental garden pattern book by the newly appointed court gardener and inspector of the Salzburg gardens, Franz Anton Danreiter (1695-1760). In 1728 Danreiter was appointed court gardener and inspector to related buildings by the ducal bishop of Salzburg. He translated Dezallier's "La Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage" into German and became one of the more important mediators of French garden design to the German-speaking countries. His own designs issued in the present work, in two parts, with the second part particularly rare, show more than 100 ornamental and fanciful planting patterns on 42 plates. This was his first and rarest model book with garden plans for parterres. They show that far from endlessly repeating the strict symmetrical canon of French Baroque garden design, Danreiter developed a never-ending variety in ornamental designs which herald the German rococo. Danreiter served five successive bishops in Salzburg. Between 1727 and 1735 he also engraved a number of large-scale views of the city which represent a unique documentation of Salzburg in its 18th century baroque glory. - II: First edition of Steingruber's first published architectural book, showing designs for town houses and palaces. In total Steingruber shows seven scaled designs from a garden pavilion in an aristocratic park (2), several ever more lavish town houses for the haute bourgeois (4), and finally a ducal residence (1). Each design is shown in as much detail as possible with elevations and plans, but also several sections. The grander houses are shown with views of street and garden elevations; some designs have differently laid out plans. The architect J. D. Steingruber (1702-87) was appointed court architect by the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1734. In the course of his near sixty-year tenure of this position he was able to transform the townscape of Ansbach after his own designs. He is best remembered for his playful "Architektonisches Alphabet" (1773), a remarkable series of designs in which each building has a ground plan based on a different letter in the alphabet. - III: Scarce 18th century copy of Charmeton's rare "Diverses corniches choisies sur l'anticque", originally issued in 30 plates in c. 1670 (cf. Guilmard, 68). Pfeffel decided to issue only a selection of the designs. - Very rare: the only three complete copies of Danhauser's work located in libraries worldwide are at Augsburg (cf. KVK), Dumbarton Oaks (cf. OCLC), and the National Gallery, Washington (cf. Millard, Northern, no. 18). The Bavarian State Library and the British Library have only the first part; Olschki, Choix, 645 offered a copy with the second part, but lacked 2 plates in that part. - First leaf with near-contemporary aristocratic illegible ownership stamp. A fine architectural sammelband in excellent fresh condition with the plates in strong impressions, all printed an thick paper. I: Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 3332 (wrong collation). II: Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 2006. Cicognara 676. OCLC records copies at Avery and Getty; as well as 4 copies in Germany (including Berlin). III: Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 3929.

Inlibris · Austria€18,000.00

Maugendre, Adolphe.MareMagnum

Société anonyme des mines et fonderies de zinc de la Vieille Montagne. Album de 30 vues. Paris, [printed by Auguste Bry], 1850-1851.

Oblong folio (555 x 385 mm). Tinted lithographed title-page and 30 tinted lithographed plates (555 x 385 mm, one slightly smaller: 350 x 505 mm), all in fine contemporary hand colour. Loose in modern clamshell box. Extremely rare first edition of an impressive series of lithographed views showing the zinc mines, foundries and factories in Belgium and Germany owned by the "Société Anonyme de Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille Montagne". The series includes views of Moresnet, Welkenraedt, Rabotraedt, Angleur, Saint Léonard (Liège), Valentin-Cocq and Bray, all beautifully rendered by the French landscape painter Adolphe Maugendre (1809-1895). The Vieille Montagne society was founded in 1837. Its history goes back to 1806, when Jean-Jacques Daniel Dony (1759-1819) was granted the sole mining rights to the calamine deposits of Vieille Montagne (or Altenberg), between Liège and Aachen. Dony had invented a new method for extracting zinc and casting it in ingots. In 1809 he established a rolling mill at Saint-Léonard, apparently the first plant for the industrial production of zinc. The series shows the complete process of producing zinc, from the zinc ore extraction to the stoking, pouring and refilling of the crucible, and finally the production of sheets of zinc in a rolling mill. It includes four detailed views of the Saint-Léonard plant (one, surprisingly, featuring a woman and two children). In the 20th century the Vieille Montagne society, together with a number of other mining and smelting companies, evolved into "Umicore", a global materials technology and recycling group still active today. A second edition was published in 1855 as Album des usines et etablissements de la société and is much less rare than the present first edition. - Some light marginal spotting, the title-page more severely, title-page with a tiny tear, otherwise in very good condition. An important visual record of the history of the zinc industry. WorldCat (only a catalogue entry, not listing any copies); no further copies in KVK. For Dony: Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, pp. 376-377; for Maugendre: Benezit VII, p. 273.

Inlibris · Austria€22,500.00

Wedel, Georg Wolfgang.MareMagnum

Opiologia ad mentem academiae naturae curiosorum. Jena, Samuel Krebs' Wwe. für Johann Bielcke, 1682.

4to. (16), 170, (20) pp., final blank. With engraved vignette to title, printed in red an black. (With:) Ettmüller, Michael. De virtute opii diaphoretica dissertatio. Leipzig & Jena, Krebs for Bielcke, [1682]. 48 pp. Contemporary marbled half vellum. Second edition of this early monograph on the pharmacological and therapeutic aspects of opium. "The main text is a reissue of the 1674 edition" (Krivatsy). Wedel not only evaluates the medical literature but also all available travel reports. The chapter entitled "An aphrodisiacum sit opium & mulierem excitet?" provides an overview of the various opinions, including Saar's account from his East Indian journeys noting the use of opium in Batavian brothels, as well as Garcia's contradictory information that opium leads to infertility and impotence (p. 128f.). The title vignette depicts a Turkish opium picker: scratching the poppy seed capsule with his knife, he collects the sap. The appendix contains the first printing of a dissertation on the qualities of opium, written by Michael Ettmüller (d. 1683), who dedicated his work to his colleage Wedel. - G. W. Wedel (1645-1721) was one of the principal physicians of his age. He authored 49 books and was the teacher of several progressively minded medical men. He is credited with the timeless aphorism that "medicine is nothing but the incessant renewal of ignorance." His "Opiologia" won him admission to the Academy of Naturalists, the still-extant "Leopoldina" in Halle. "Wedel stood midway between medieval and modern world views, defending astrology and alchemy and championing iatrochemistry" (DSB XIV, 212). "Wedel appears to have been one of the first to employ the word physiology in its present restricted sense" (Thorndike VIII, s. v.). - Evenly browned throughout; binding slightly rubbed. A fine copy. VD 17, 12:166680Q. Krivatsy 12664. Pritzel 10054. Ferchl 570. Hirsch/H. V, 875.

Inlibris · Austria€4,500.00

[Wiener Medizinische Schule].MareMagnum

Sammelband mit 9 Wiener medizinischen Dissertationen. Wien und Pest, 1816-1827

I: Vering, Joseph Ritter von. De convalescentia ejusque cura. Wien, Karl Gerold, 1816. 51 SS. II: Eissner zu Eissenstein, Anton Ritter von. Observationes XXV alteras docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Edba., Mechitaristen, 1824. XVIII, (2), 69, (1) SS. III: Zebisch, Johann. Observationes XXV. tertias docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Ebda., Mechitaristen, 1825. 6, 57, (1) SS. IV: Czermak, Joseph Julius. Observationes XXV. docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Ebda., Mechitaristen, 1823. VIII, 64, (2). Mit 1 gest. Tafel. V: Kassowitz, Joseph. Observationes XV. docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Ebda., Mechitaristen, 1827. (6), 36, (2) SS. VI: Sistens expositionem generalem anatomicam organi auditus per classes animalium. Ebda., 1818, Anton Pichler. (6), 48 SS. 5 lith. Tafeln. VII: Schäffer, August von. De lusus et ludorum vi diaetetica. Ebda., Anton Pichler, 1816. 48, (2) SS. VIII: Koppi, Alexander. Fontes generales merita medicorum dijudicandi sistens. Pest, Thomas Trattner, 1817. 30, (1) SS. IX: Rinna von Sarenbach, Ernst. De nutrice optima. Wien, Georg Überreuter, 1816. 68 SS. Reichhaltiger Sammelband medizinischer Dissertationen angehender Medizinier des 19. Jahrunderts. So z.B. jene Joseph von Verings (1793-1826) über die Wiedergenesung. Sein Vater Gerhard von Vering (1755-1823), Dermatologe und Audiologe behandelte unter anderen auch Ludwig van Beethoven wegen seines rapiden Gehöhrverlusts. Da der Behandlung kein Erfolg beschieden war, wandte sich der Komponist an Dr. Johann Adam Schmidt. Weiters findet sich ein Werk des angesehen Prager Mediziner Joseph Julius Czermak (1799-1851), welcher durch seine Dissertation einen Grundstein für sein weiteres Forschungsgebiet der vergleichenden Anatomie setzt. Während seiner Professur in Wien besuchten u.a. Nikolaus Lenau seine Vorlesungen. - Titelblatt zum ersten Band am Oberrand teilweise ausgerissen. Durchgehend wasserrandig, gebräunt und stockfleckig. Zu Band IV: Wurzb. III, 99.

Inlibris · Austria€850.00

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