Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

Early Mining History
192 LOMMER, Christian Hieronymous. Bergmännischer Beytrag
zu der von der Königlichen Großbrittanischen Societät der
Wissenschaften, auf das Jahr 1781 ausgestellten Preißfrage: Wie
waren die Bergwerke bey den Alten eigentlich beschaVen und
eingerichtet? ... Freyberg, Carl Craz, 1785. £600
4to, pp. 44, Wne text engraving to dedication, engraved head piece;
contemporary paste-paper boards, spine a little chipped.
First and only edition of this response to a prize question by the Göttingen
Royal Society on the question of mining technology in earlier times. Interestingly
Lommer concentrates on the period of Agricola, and describes important
milestones of mining history. He begins with a brief introduction
to metallurgy and mine surveying, with reference to numerous authors.
Various mining professions are described, and signiWcant changes and advances
in technique are listed. In the second half he concentrates on advances
of modern mining technology, and maintains that this had led to a
more extensive exploitation of the mines, greater safety for the miners, and
more economical mining.
ADB XIX, 151; OCLC just lists copies at the University of Illinois and the State
Library of Lower Saxony.
Hawksmoor’s Churches
193 [LONDON – LAW.] The Acts of Parliament relating to the
Building of Fifty New Churches in and about the Cities of London
and Westminster. London, by John Baskett, 1721. £480
8vo, pp. 179, [1] blank, 20 contents; title printed within double
border; some oVsetting to margin of title and last leaf, else clean;
contemporary panelled tan calf, joints weak, but cords holding well,
head and tail of spine chipped and wear to corners, small library stamp
to verso of title.
First complete edition (Wrst 1716) of the oYcial acts regulating the building
of Wfty new churches in London and Westminster. This building program
was to be Wnanced by an additional duty on all coal brought into the port of
London, and a number of other fund-raising ventures, such as a special lottery.
To stabilise religious life in London, in the wake of Reformation and
Counter-Reformation, Parliament had established a commission for the
building of Wfty new churches in the great new suburbs of London, which
were regarded as strongholds of Dissent. Amongst the churches built as a
result of this act was one of Hawksmoor’s best-known designs,
Christchurch SpitalWelds, recently restored to its former glory.
The acts were Wrst published in 1716, in an edition extending to just 83
pages.
ESTC n30842.
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194 [LONDON – LAW.] Statutes relative to the Sewers, within
Westminster, and part of Middlesex. London, 1776. £520
Small 8vo, pp. vi, [3]–77, [1], title printed within double border; some
light dust-soiling and browning; contemporary half calf over marbled
boards; spine decorated in gilt, and gilt-lettered label to upper board;
extremities rubbed and lower joint beginning to crack; still a good copy
with ownership inscription of the Duke of Newcastle on front free
endpaper.
First edition of a compilation of the acts and statutes relating to the management
of water supply, sewers and drainage within Westminster, from
the original Bill of Sewers, passed by Henry VIII, with its various amendments
and modiWcations until the second half of the eighteenth century.
Until the early nineteenth century, the term ‘sewer’ meant a channel for the
removal of surface water, rather than today’s very speciWc toilet waste removal.
In the Wnal section the twelve sewers within Westminster and part of
Middlesex are described, with the relevant Commissioners of sewers, who
are named individually.
ESTC t93557 listing the Bodleian Library and the British Library only; RLIN
records one copy at Harvard with diVerent collation.
The Art of Engraving
195 LONGHI, Giuseppe. La CalcograWa propriamente detta ossia
l’Arte d’Incidere in Rame coll’Acqua-forte, col Bulino e colla Punta
... Volume I, concernent la Teoria dell’arte. Milano, Stamperia
Reale, 1830. £550