ROSENTHAL, Gottfried Erich.

Litteratur der Technologie das ist: Verzeichniss der Bücher, Schriften und Abhandlungen, welche von den Künsten, den Manufakturen und Fabriken, der Handlung, den Handwerkern und sonstigen Nahrungszweigen, als auch von denen zum wissenschaftlichen Betriebe derselben erforderlichen Kenntnissen aus dem Naturreiche, der Mathematik, Physik und Chemie handeln.

1 p.l., ii, 420 pp. Large 4to, cont. mottled half-sheep & paste-paper boards (lower cover a bit wormed, minor foxing), flat spine richly gilt, contrasting leather lettering pieces on spine. Berlin & Stettin: F. Nicolai, 1795. First edition of the first great bibliography of technology in which the author lists about 20,000 books and articles. Rosenthal (1745-1814), a burgher and baker at Nordhausen, was a member of several important scientific societies and the author of many scientific works. The book is arranged by subject and is particularly important in that Rosenthal has listed a very large number of contributions to journals, well-known and obscure. Many of these citations would be otherwise lost to historians of science and technology. A very fine and attractive copy. Besterman 6020. Petzholdt, p. 727­"considerably complete" (in trans.). Poggendorff, II, 696-97.

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