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Lot 39
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(ENGINEERING) STURM, LEONHARD CHRISTOPH
Vollstandige muhlen baukunst .... Augsburg: J. Wolff, 1718. First edition.Three-quarter leather over marbled boards (34 cm. tall); general wear, with some loss to spine and remnants of shelf-mark. Contemporary German library stamp to title page, with nineteenth century German bokseller's ticket to front pastedown. Engraved title page. Contents collated as complete: 35, [1] pages of text in Gothic script, followed by 51 plates; remarkably bright.Treatise on mills and hydraulic machinery, with an early depiction of the paper-making process.



