«Merge Record #»«Title» - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

First edition, rare, of this description of an innovative vinification method, based on
the developments of Dom Nicolas Casbois (1728-1795) and apparently partly
popularized by Elisabeth and Jean-Antoine Gervais.
The method included the use of both covered and open vats and is illustrated on the
woodcut illustration which shows the wine barrel with its covering lid and valve in
place. The final paragraph sums up that this device would guarantee wine of more,
body, strength, colour and fragrancy, would increase yields because less would
evaporate etc.
The Academia degli Ardenti of Viterbo, one of the earliest Italian academies of
science and literature, was founded in 1480 and counted amongst its members
Ariosto, Tasso, Michelangelo, Muratori and Leopardi, to mention but a few.
Not in Oberlé, not in Cagle; Very rare, not found in Check Simon, Vinaria, Bitting, =
Westbury; no copy found in ICCU or OCLC.
Locks and Locksmiths
85.
ZIPPER, Jakob. Anweisung zu Schlosserarbeiten mit Zeichnungen.
Erster Theil mit 12 Kupfern. [Zweyter Theil mit 12 Kupfern, Dritter
Theil mit 12 Kupfern.]. Leipzig, Stage, n.d. [1803]. £ 2200
4to, [viii], 56, with 12 engraved plates; xii, 60, with 12 plates (misbound);
xii, 52, with 12 engraved plates, woodcut and fleuron decorations in the
text; brown stain to upper margin of last four text pages and first plates
of final section, occasionally a little dust-soiled, but overall clean; bound
without the front endpaper; contemporary half roan over sprinkled
boards, gilt-lettered spine label, spine quite rubbed, head and tail of
spine chipped, paper on sides scratched, and slightly cockled on upper
board.
Later issue of first and only edition of this comprehensive technical and practical
manual for locksmiths, for gates, door, chest and cupboard locks. The author
deplores the lack of practical manuals, and maintains that apprentices just learn a
few techniques from their master, without thorough knowledge of all the different
kinds of locks available. In three parts, Zipper introduces increasingly sophisticated
locks and keys, and describes their mechanisms, which are then illustrated on the
very detailed plates. Master craftsmen used increasingly ornamented locks and keys,
which are also illustrated; technical advances are outlined, such as the lever locks
and spring latch locks, sophisticated padlocks, and finally in a complicated
combination lock. All locks are illustrated on the engraved plates, with extensive
explanation in the text.
The work gives a clear indication both of the technical advances in locksmithing, but
also of the workmanship of the artisan necessary to produce the highly decorated
locks and keys.