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1758016251Philadelphia: William Bradford 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page with a few repaired tears hinged with following Preface page; two adjoining leaves pages 441-444 of text lacking and supplied with facsimiles. Contents Very Good binding about Fine. Folio 7-1/4" x 11-1/2" bound in contemporary calf leather with a decorative blindstamped border recently rebacked with a new gilt-lettered and decorated spine preserving original paste-downs and free endpapers; 4 763 pages. Title within rule border decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. An important compilation of the fundamental New Jersey charters and session laws of the proprietary period 1664 to 1702 up to Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as Royal Governor when New Jersey became a crown colony under Queen Anne. Publication was ordered by the New Jersey Assembly in 1752 but two years were required to collect the documents to be included while the typesetting and printing took Bradford an additional three. By the date of publication some 170 copies had been subscribed. This title was the largest volume issued from Bradford's press and one of the largest from any eighteenth-century American press. Evans 8205; Sabin 39527. Early owner name on the title page and early twentieth century names on the front pastedown. <br/><br/> W[illiam] Bradford hardcover
175867012Philadelphia:: Printed by W. Bradford 1758. First edition. old sueded leather. Later additional ownership name on title page; a few neat old marginal annotations; some scattered inoffensive staining to text; several significant losses to the leather at the top of the spine and corners; nevertheless tight and sound. . Folio. One-time legislator Aaron D. Woodruff's copy with his 1785 ownership signature at the head of the title page and bookplate on pastedown. Printed by W. Bradford, hardcover
1774806F26London: Printed for the Author by J. March 1774 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. An extra-illustrated first edition of this late eighteenth century study of a Kent market town in a smart calf binding and with a large number of engraved copper plate illustrations. The first edition of English antiquary and mayor Edward Jacob's illustrated study of the market town of Faversham Kent.Illustrated with five folding plates - including a folding map - and a further fourteen copper engraved plates. With four extra plates; 'The Gateway of Faversham Abbey' 'Faversham Abbey in Kent' 'King Stephen and his Queen Matilda' and 'The West front of the Nunnery and Church of Davington'. Collated complete.Jacob was an antiquary bibliophile scientist botanist and fossil collector who published a number of works and was the mayor of Faversham on four occasions between 1749 and 1775.ESTC reference no. T138691A fascinating work of late eighteenth century local history with a man closely associated with the area featuring chapters on local grammar schools markets historic ruins and the gun powder works. In a full calf binding. Boards clean with rubbing to back strip head and tail and small losses of leather to joints. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Printed for the Author, by J. March hardcover
17745203Printed for the Author 1774. 1774 8vo. xiv 222 pp. Folding plan and nineteen engraved plates four folding. Collation as Smith Bib. Cant. p.199 for copies with the extra plates. Nineteenth century black goatskin rubbed but sound. Marbled boards and endpapers. The spine lettered direct between raised bands. Neat and unobtrusive blindstamps and library accession number. Internally crisp and tight a very good copy. Printed for the Author, hardcover
1774e6438London: B White. VG : in very good condition. Spine lightly scuffed. Light browning to several plates and occasional spotting. 1774. First Edition. Modern half calf gilt. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". 222pp. Engraved frontispiece and 19 engravings some fold out including 4 additional plates bound in. . B White unknown
173718697London: James Mechell 1737. First English language edition. . Hardcover. Fair. 2 volumes rebound in plain boards 666pp & 678pp Vol I spine split and damaged. marginal damp stain to index. Fold out map Volume I & fold out genealogical chart to volume II <br/> <br/> James Mechell hardcover
1797884537London:: Andrew Strahan 1797. From Jacob's tenth edition Sir Thomas Edilyne Tomlins enlarged and re-edited this work and earned the following critique from Marvin: " . volumous and prepared with skill and accuracy" and "Mr.Tomlins is the best". Two quarto sized unpagenated volumes with the pages double columned.Hinges restored; bindings show moderate wear otherwise a very good copy of a classic 18th century legal classic. 11th Edition. Full Contemporary Calf. Very Good. 4to. 2 Volumes. Andrew Strahan, Hardcover
1720AL13BRN141223Londini: printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling assigns of Edw. Sayer Esq; for B. Lintot 1720. Hardback original calf. 20 x 13cm. 8 502pp 42 index. 1720 Third edition. Boards worn and rubbed binding remains secure. Previous owner's details on the ffep. A few small marks but contents genenerally clean. A nice copy. . Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good. printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for B. Lintot Hardcover
1720607721720. London 1720. third & final edition. London 1720. third & final edition. Best Edition of Jacob's JP Manual Jacob Giles 1686-1744. The Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace In All its Parts. As an Abridgment of the Common Law And of All the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace Constables and Other Parish Officers Under Them Compleat Down to this Time; And Some Special Law-Cases to Illustrate the Same. With Great Variety of the Most Authentick Precedents of Precepts Summons Warrants Examinations Commitments Indictments &c. Regularly Interspersed Fitting all Occasions for Putting of the Laws in Force. Also the Chairman's Charge in the Quarter-Sessions; Proceedings in Trying of Criminals Motions and Trials of Causes Relating to Settlements &c. And the Particular Power of Mayors Given by Statute with Precedents of Warrants &c. in all Cases. To Which are Added A Concise Account of the Constitution and Government of a Considerable Workhouse for Employing of the Poor Within the City of Bristol. An Alphabetical Table Shewing what Acts of Parliament do Concern the Business of a Justice. And a Compleat Table to the Whole. Corrected Improv'd and Continued to this Present Year 1720. London: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling 1720. viii 502 42 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf rebacked in period style raised bands and lettering piece to spine hinges mended. Some rubbing to extremities with some wear to corners light toning to text. Later owner signature to front free endpaper brief annotation to rear pastedown internally clean. $500. Third edition. This is the final and most complete edition. The first edition appeared in 1717. It was reissued in 1718 with new preliminaries. In the third edition Jacob has "continued the statutes to the present year; added many new entire heads and precedents never before printed; a very great number of references and variety of cases and resolutions in the superior courts" preface. He also added about 100 pages of new material. One of the most interesting features is the detailed six-page description of the workhouse at Bristol. It forms part of a full chapter devoted to the Poor Law pp.324-348. OCLC locates 11 copies of this edition in North American law libraries. English Short-Title Catalogue T136996. unknown
1720QQ0045No publisher 1720. Original speckled calf double gilt frames to boards raised bands and recent typescript paper label to spine. Small 8vo 10.5 x 17cm. Mild chipping to top spine. Lacking front and rear free endpapers and blank endpages but text block complete including title=page. Bookplate and library shelfmark sticker to inside front board together with inscription 'Ex libris Tho Cornforth'. This is possibly the Fr. Thomas Cornforth who arrived in the Dorset village of Marnhull in 1725 and under the patronage of the Lords of the Manor the Catholic Hussey family built a presbytery which was to remain the focus of local Catholic worship until the consecration of a church in 1832. Two typescript title-labels to inside rear board. Head- and tail-pieces. Minor soiling to p. 267. Jacob Merlo Horstius was a German Catholic theologian based in Cologne. Best known for his ascetic writings his 'Paradisus animae christianae' was first published in 1644. Blom suggests that this English translation by 'T. M.' was the work of Catholic bookseller and publisher Thomas Meighan. Blom 1854. ESTC T092138. 1st edition thus. Text block sound and unmarked. Text block sound and unmarked. Good/Fine. 570 6. No publisher Hardcover
1723AQ32419London: Printed and Sold by A. Bettesworth 1723. In two volumes. xxvi 6 444 i.e. 344; 2 vii 13 334pp 22. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a further 12 engraved plates. Errata slip pasted to verso of A8 Vol. I. Contemporary panelled calf later rebacked contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Heavily rubbed some surface loss to boards corners exposed. Leaves lightly browned scattered spotting small marginal hole to leaf R8 of Vol. I very occasional early manuscript annotations. A 'poetical register' composed by Giles Jacob 1686-1744 best remembered for his legal writings. It catalogues a canon of English poets in alphabetical order. Jacob's poetry and plays were less well received and his work earned him a place in Pope's Dunciad as 'the blunderbuss of the law'. ESTC T137465. 8vo. Printed, and Sold by A. Bettesworth hardcover
1720205887London: E. Curll 1720. First Edition. Armorial bookplates Lloyd Vincent Almirall; internally clean externally worn especially on spines. Two vols. 8vos frontispiece 2 vii 15 334 22; frontispiece xxvi 4 328 9; contemporary panelled calf recased and rebacked; gilt dentelles marbled edges. Large paper copy with engraved portraits and index in each volume. E. Curll unknown
1723442400London : Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth W. Taylor and J. Batley; J. Wyat and C. Rivington; E. Bell and W. Meadows and J. Pemberton and J. Hooke 1723. N. I. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Good copy professionally recased. Scattered foxing. Physical description; 444 pages 20 cm. Subjects; Poets English ; Biography ; Early works to 1800. English poetry ; Bio-bibliography. English drama ; Bio-bibliography. Dramatists English. English drama. English poetry. London : Printed, and sold by A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor, and J. Batley; J. Wyat and C. Rivington; E. Bell and W. Meadows, and J. hardcover
17933647Leonard Worchester Isaiah Thomas: Worcester Massachusetts 1793. First Edition. First edition. This book measures approximately 5.5" x 9" with 91 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in poor condition. Lacking front and rear boards and several pages at the rear. Large piece of the right side of the title page is missing. Heavy foxing and staining throughout textblock. <br /> <br /> This book contains early and rare American music composed by Jacob French a singer and one of the first American composers sometimes called "Yankee tunesmiths".<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory # N1-15. Worcester Massachusetts unknown
17932340792Boston / Worcester: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 1793. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Lacks pp. 81-88 107-112. Boards rubbed with a few abrasions and bookworm holes wooden boards beneath leather splitting along horizontal with some loss from rear endpaper ownership marks of Benjamin Church of Hubbardston Massachusetts on rear endpaper dated 1799. Church was a lieutenant in the United States Army and his tombstone reads "In memory of Lieut. Benjamin Church who died June 23 1806. in the 30 year of his age. His death was occasioned by a fall from a frame.". 1793 Full-Leather. xvi 17-112 pp. ESTC W22054 Evans 25695. Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews hardcover
1730303645Bernard Linkot. Fair. 1730. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with label removed from spine. Newer cloth library binding not buckram. Slight damp staining to lower portion of pages throughout darker on first several leaves. Pages are generally very slightly foxed heavier on first few and last few leaves. Spine labels are chipped. . Bernard Linkot hardcover
1731BS68TANSavoy: Bernard Lintot 1731. Hardback full-calf. Decorative blind-stamped boards. 20cm x 13cm. v 220pp 4. Third edition 1731. Small losses to spine ends binding slightly worn. Previous owner's initials to front pastedown. A pleasing copy. bs68 . Hard Cover. Good. Bernard Lintot Hardcover
1719005094London: Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for Bernard Lintot 1719. 12 ii-v 220pp 4 4pp 8. Contemporary full calf raised bands spine in six panels covers with double line border in blind covers with scalloped edge in blind to the side nearest the spine. Upper cover with numbers and writing in ink stain to upper cover extremities lightly rubbed corners bumped upper joint split from foot to first band but holding well. Front pastedown has come unglued and is damaged with some loss lower pastedown unglued but complete lacks ffep ink notes scribbled through to lower ffep former owner's name to lower pastedown minor browning throughout. Sweet and Maxwell page 548. First Edition. Hardback. Fair. 8vo. Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for Bernard Lintot Hardcover
1725663P20Savoy: E. and R. Nutt 1725. First edition. Leather. Fair. 7.5" by 5". None. A very scarce first edition of Giles Jacob's first and his favourite of his law works laying out the basics of law practice for students. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. This work is an octavo with the signatures running as A2 a4 B-P8 Q4. ESTC citation number T137466. With an index titled 'A Table of the Heads'. Collated from the ESTC complete. This work is a guide to studying law containing many practical tips reviews and indexes. The work is descriptive and practical and provides a very useful resource for students of law describing what the author believed to be the most fair and well constructed law system in the world. Written by Giles Jacob a British legal author. He considered this work to be his favourite. Though he was best known for his legal writings he also had a great interest in poetry and literature and published a farce called 'Love in a Wood or The Country Squire' and the satire 'The Rape of the Smock' and the more serious 'Tractatus de Hermaphroditus'. However his most famous work is 'A New Law Dictionary' published in 1729 which took Jacob nine years to write. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page 'Ex Libris Nicholas Gibbard'. In the original calf binding. Externally sound. The front board and front endpaper are detached but present. A little loss to the head of the front and rear boards. Some rubbing to the boards. Discolouration to the spine. Lacking the spine label. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Rear hinge and joint are strained but remain firm. Front free endpaper is detached but present. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lighty age-toned and generally clean with the odd spot. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page. The occasional ink annotation to the margins. Fair E. and R. Nutt hardcover
172531757AB1725. First Edition. London In the Savoy Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq. for T. Corbett at Addison's Head 1725. Small Octavo. 3 unnumbered 224 8 unnumbered pages. Original full leather. Binding in very porr condition but still in its original state. Needs repair. Interior very good with pre-owner's name in ink on titlepage: "RMA Mainish - 1825". Extremely scarce publication. Price reflects condition. Giles Jacob 1686 8 May 1744 was a British legal writer whose works include a well-received law dictionary that became the most popular and widespread law dictionary in the newly independent United States. Jacob was the leading legal writer of his era according to the Yale Law Library. The literary works of Giles Jacob did not fare as well as his legal ones and he feuded with the poet Alexander Pope both publicly and in literary form. Pope named Jacob as one of the dunces in his 1728 Dunciad referring to Jacob as "the blunderbuss of the law". Jacob is remembered well for his legal writing though not so much for his poetry and plays. Giles was born in Romsey Hampshire and was baptized on 22 November 1686. Among eight children Giles was the only son of Henry and Susannah Jacob. Henry Jacob was a maltster who lived until 1735. Giles Jacob's legal training included employment by Thomas Freke and then as a secretary to Sir William Blathwayt. Working for Blathwayt he engaged in litigation and dispensation probably in manorial courts. Jacob's first book The Compleat Court-Keeper 1713 gives detailed and practical instructions for how to administer estate matters. He combined this with a chronological summary of statute law and the combination was financially successful. Jacob always had an interest in contemporary poetry and the literary life and in 1714 he wrote a farce called Love in a Wood or The Country Squire. This play was never produced. He persisted however and in 1717 he wrote a satire of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock in the form of The Rape of the Smock. The poem was low and bawdy and the next year he wrote a serious work titled Tractatus de hermaphroditis about the legal status of intersex people published by Edmund Curll in 1718 along with the first English-language publication of Ioannes Henricus Meibomius's A treatise of the use of flogging in venereal affairs. Title page from an 1811 edition of Jacob's The New Law Dictionary. In 1719 two works appeared by Jacob both very successful. The first was Lex constitutionis which was a thoroughly researched compendium of statute law common law and criminal law schematized according to which powers of the executive branch of the government were involved. While the work's fame and usefulness were surpassed in a few years Jacob's book was a well regarded analysis. The same year he produced the first volume of the Poetical Register with a second volume in 1720. This work provided biographies of contemporary authors as well as earlier ones. According to the literary editor Stephen Jones: He is generally accurate and faithful and affords much information to those who have occasion to consult him. It cannot be denied that he possessed very small abilities; but he was fully equal to a task where plodding industry and not genius must be deemed the essential qualification. In the Poetical Register Jacob criticized the play Three Hours After Marriage 1717 which had been written by John Gay with anonymous assistance from John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope. Jacob wrote that its scenes "trespassed on Female Modesty". He subsequently criticized that play for "obscenity and false Pretence". Jacob had admired Pope had been on good terms with him and had submitted the biographical entry of Pope in the Poetical Register to Pope himself for correction. Jacob likely did not realize that Three Hours After Marriage had been anonymously co-authored by Pope. In The Dunciad of 1728 Pope pounced: Jacob the scourge of grammar mark with awe Nor less revere him blunderbuss of law. Pope explained Jacob's offense as follows: "he very grossly and unprovoked abused in that book the Poetical Register the authors friend Mr. Gay". The play Three Hours After Marriage was panned by most critics as obscene and literary historian Thomas Lounsbury has explained that no one criticized the play "without incurring from Pope an enmity that never died out". In 1725 Jacob wrote The Student's Companion and regarded it as his favorite of the books he had written. It was a guide to studying law with practical tips reviews and indexes. In 1729 his most famous work nine years in the making appeared: A New Law Dictionary. It combined a dictionary of legal practice with an abridgment of statute law and it reached its fifth edition by the time of Jacob's death. As late as 1807 "Jacob's Law Dictionary" was still a very profitable copyright. His last work was Every Man his Own Lawyer which outsold even the law dictionary. It was a self-help book for average citizens who might be involved in litigation. Jacob's legal writings were of a practical and descriptive sort often compared unfavorably to the analytic and theoretical treatises by authors like William Blackstone. But according to historian Julia Rudolph authors like Jacob had a different purpose in that they "were dealing with the problem of knowledge management or 'information overload' and in response to this problem the learning of the law was systematized alphabetized and organized." Jacob's most successful non-legal writing was of a similarly practical and descriptive sort. Jacob married Jane Dexter in 1733 and they had at least one daughter also named Jane.4 He and his family moved to Staines Middlesex where he died on 8 May 1744. Wikipedia hardcover
1721Gen55191721. Addison Joseph Hardbacks the books are bound in library cloth there is some light wear the bindings are sound. The endpapers have a library plate. There is some light foxing throughout the texts are otherwise clean. hardcover
173565511London W. Lewis 1735. First Edition. Hardback. Full contemporary aniline calf professionally and sympathetically re-backed. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. Board edges only very slightly rubbed. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 461 pages; Description: 8 p. L. 461 p. 1 l. 21 cm. Notes: Signatures: A-Z8; Aa-Gg8. Form/Genre: Tragedies. Subjects; Literature--English--18th Century. Literature--Early Works to 1800. London, W. Lewis hardcover
173744146London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley and C. Corbett 1737. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 12mo 6 1/2 x 4". Volume I: i-xxii iii-viii i-cxxxiv-135-384pp. The second pagination iii-viii is the table of contents of Volume II. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait of Rabelais and two fold-out copper engravings between pp. xvi-xvii and pp. 252-253; Volume II: 2 v-x 11-251pp. Fold-out copper engraved frontispiece full page engraving facing page 188 fold-out plate at page 217; Volume III: i-iv v-xx 21-22 3-367 5pp Index. Fold-out copper engravings facing pages 108 191 & 229 last plate missing its folded part; Volume IV: i-v vi-xc 1-281 1 blank 8 Contents 4pp Adverts. Fold-out engraved frontispiece fold-out plate facing page xxix and full copper plate facing page 49; Volume V: i-lxiv 1-267 5pp Contents. Fold-out plates facing pages 41 and154 and full-page plate facing page 149. On page 189 features the text of a poem titled "Bottle!" within the illustration of a bottle. Contemporary full spotted calf with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Title pages in red and black lettering. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. Books housed in a later cloth covered slipcase.<br /> <br /> First English translation of Francis Rabelais' first critical edition by Jacob Le Duchat 1711 containing the followings works:<br /> <br /> - Volume 1: The First Book of Rabelais Treating of the Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua<br /> - Volume 2: The Second Book of Rabelais Treating of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings Of the Good Pantagruel<br /> - Volume 3: The Third Book of Rabelais's Works<br /> - Volume 4: The Fourth Book of Pantagruel<br /> - Volume 5: The Fifth Book of Rabelais Treating of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings Of the Good Pantagruel<br /> <br /> This work is complete with its 15 copper plates including 11 fold-out with only one missing its folded part Vol. 3 page 229. A few plates are unsigned and the remaining bear the signatures of engravers Henry Roberts and Nathaniel Parr.<br /> <br /> Slipcase rubbed. Each spine partly reinforced by binder's tape not affecting gilt lettering. Armorial bookplate of contemporary previous owner on inside of each front cover George Manners with the armorial motto "Pour y Parvenir" So as to accomplish. Ex-Libris of last previous owner on inside of each back cover G. Eisenberg. Front hinge of first volume repaired. Sporadic age-toning and minor foxing throughout. Slipcase in overall good- to good bindings in good- interior in good to very good condition. Jacob Le Duchat 1658-1735 was a French literary scholar whose 1711 edition of the works of Rabelais was the first to include historical and critical commentary. "Le Duchat’s is the first of the critical editions. It takes account of differences in the texts and begins to point out the variations. His very numerous notes are remarkable and are still worthy of most serious consideration. He was the first to offer useful elucidations and these have been repeated after him and with good reason will continue to be so. Le Duchat’s commentary was translated into English by John Ozell for his 1737 edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel." For more information see: Rabelais François ca. 1483-1553 The Works of Francis Rabelais. Translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux; with explanatory notes by Duchat Ozell and Others. Volume I Books 1 2 and 3 to Chapter 13. Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux translators. London: H. G. Bohn 1851. Introduction. Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley and C. Corbett hardcover
1730241452London : Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1730. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in near fine aniline calf with decorated boards. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 16 295 1 clxiii 1 p. 4 leaves of plates 1 folded : ill. port. ; 12 . Subjects; Waller Edmund 1606-1687. English poetry — Early modern 1500-1700. English drama — 17th century. English letters — Early modern 1500-1700. Speeches addresses etc. English. Great Britain — Court and courtiers — Early works to 1800. Genre; Illustrated. London : Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand hardcover
17261595Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel 1726. First Edition. Near fine. 4 parts in one volume; Folio13 1/3 x 8 7/8 inches 337 x 228 mm; half title title printed in back and red 57 copperplate engravings thus divided:<br /> Theatrum Staticum Universalis 1726 half title blank title blank dedication to Charles VI 3 Foreword 3 Contents 2 92 pp 19 plates; <br /> Theatrum Hydrostaticum pp. title blank 2 197 - 236 7 plates <br /> Theatrum Aërostaticum: title blank contents 2 241 - 308 23 plates<br /> Theatrum Horizontostaticum: title blank Contents 1 blank pp. 313 - 332 Index 3 Errata 8 plates. <br /> Contemporary half-binding in brown leather with speckled boards spine with gilt decorations in compartments and gilt title; contemporary leather binding with gilt decorations in compartments on spine and gilt title; edges red; corners bumped and some scratches on boards; binding tight and square with a surface split at title page. Pages clean and supple with very light and even toning. Stamps of the Royal Engineering Artillery Library of Hanover on half title and title pages.<br /> <br /> Poggendorf I 1438; Ferguson p. 45-46. The Theatrum Staticum Universalis is the 6th volume of the 10-volume magnum opus of Jacob Leupold 1674 - 1727. It is extensively illustrated with copper plate engravings that fold out so that they can be viewed while consulting the text. What is particularly striking is the strong systematization that is lacking in most works of this period. The technical devices are always described in such a way that the isolated basic elements are first explained and then placed in their functional context. The illustrations show among other things draw wells water wheels pumping stations excavators pumps valves and fountains.<br /> <br /> Leupold was a German physicist mathematician instrument maker engineer and was director of mines to the Elector of Saxony. His seminal work Theatrum Machinarum Generale "The General Theory of Machines" was published in Leipzig between 1724 and 1739 with the last volumes issued after his death. The Theatrum was the first systematic analysis of mechanical engineering the most complete and the most extensively illustrated work on mechanical engineering hitherto published. It included ahead of its time a design for a high-pressure non-condensing steam engine the likes of which were not built until the early 19th century. Christoph Zunkel unknown
