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[SILBERSCHLAG, Johann Esaias].
Abhandlung vom Wasserbau und Strömen.Leipzig, Johann Wendler, 1756. 8vo. With a title page with woodcut vignette and with 13 folding plates. Also with 2 factotums and with two woodcut headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf with gold tooled spine. Marbled endpapers. Red edged.
(10), 246 pp. Poggendorff II, col. 929; Roberts & Trent, Bib. Mechanica, p. 295.Firstedition of a prize-winning treatise on controlling and utilising water flow, in twenty chapters divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part discusses the natural conditions of rivers, streams, lakes, and seas; such as tides and river flow. The practical part describes the human means of controlling, and compensating for, such natural conditions by means of locks, canals, bridges, ice breakers, etc. By the German natural scientist and theologian Johann Esaias Silberslag (1721-1791). With a 54-page supplement, a 2-page index and 13 folding plates.With the library stamps of the Bibliothek des Königlich Sächsischen Artillerie-Corps and the Bibliothek der Königlich Sächsischen Militär-Akademie on the title page, and the latter's printed rules for borrowing books on the front paste-down. A very good copy. On the natural conditions of rivers and seas and human means of controlling them.
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