Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Eighteen - International League ...

Gymnastics, Swimming & Fencing
72. LINSINGEN, Alphons von. Handbuch zur Anweisung
des Soldaten in der Gymnastik und im Bajonetfechten. Mit
30 Abbildungen auf 5 lithographirten Tafeln. Hannover, Hahn,
1854. £650
8vo, pp. xvi, [1] 108, with five lithograph plates with thirty
illustrations; contemporary red blind-stamped ribbed cloth, spine gilt
in compartments, lettering directly to spine, gilt arms to upper board;
from the library of Ernst August of Hanover (1845–1923), with mss
ownership note to front free endpaper; a fine copy.
First edition of this comprehensive introduction to sports and physical
exercise for soldiers. Linsingen, himself a lieutenant in the Royal Hanoverian
battalion, covers exercises with weights, gymnastics, track & field, climbing
and bar exercises, vaulting and swimming, with the final section covering
fencing, both with bayonet and sabre. Particularly appealing are the plates,
two of them illustrating fifteen different swimming and diving moves.
[Provenance:] From the royal military library of crown prince Ernst August
of Hanover (1845–1923), with a mss ownership inscription ‘crownprince
of Hanover’, presumably in a secretarial hand, to front free endpaper.
Thimm p. 167; not in Hagelin, Kinetic Jottings; OCLC: V & A, NYPL, Strasbourg,
Zurich, Basel outside of Germany.
Metalworkers’ Advances
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen
73. LOOFT, James Geheimes Kunst-cabinet für Metallarbeiter
und Fabrikanten. Oder die wichtigsten neuesten englischen,
französischen und deutschen Entdeckungen und Erfindungen in der
Kunst, in Gold, Silber, Stahl, Messing, Kupfer, Zinn, Eisen, Blech
s.w auf das geschmackvollste und vortheilhafteste zu arbeiten, und
die verschiedenen Metalle auf das beste zu den mannichfaltigsten
Gegenständen zu behandeln. Aus dem Englischen. Quedlinburg and
Leipzig, Gottfried Basse, 1826. £1,000
8vo, pp. viii, 264; title page with stain to foremargin, and some creasing
to upper outer corners of pp. 67 - 87, leading to paper damage, but
no loss of text; contemporary marbled boards, upper corner repaired;
contemporary ownership inscription G. Schall to title.
First edition of a fascinating book of secrets for metal workers and
manufacturers, despite the note on the title, apparently not a translation,
but a German original. The author has collected a great number of recent
English, French and German developments and industrial advances in metal
processing, and covers any process involving gold, silver, steel, copper,
brass, tin, iron, etc. In sixty-six chapters, these individual new developments
are presented, including information on English cast iron, the hardening of
steel following a method developed by Parkes, production of Wootz steel,
details of the production of pins, gilt-plating, tinned metal, welding, wire
production, metal compositions, to mention but a few. In most cases the
sources are given and the inventors credited, in others just the technical
details are included.
A chapter on occupational medicine suggests methods for the prevention
of mercury poisoning of gilders.
Engelmann, p. 147 (under Loof); OCLC: Berlin, Dresden, Basel, and
Winterthur.
Book of Trades
74. LUYKEN, Jan and Caspar. Spiegel van het Menselyk Bedryf,
vertoonende honderd verscheiden ambachten, konstig afgebeeld, en
met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen verrykt. Amsterdam, Jan
Roman de Jonge, 1749. £2,200
8vo, pp. [8] including engraved title, 208, [3] index and advertisement,
with one hundred engraved plates of trades; contemporary full vellum,
blindstamped with central device to upper and lower board; spine
lettered in ink; a fine crisp copy.
Later edition of Jan and Caspar Luyken’s book of trades (first 1694),
presenting in one hundred plates all trades and professions practised in the
Netherlands at the end of the seventeenth century. This was one of the most