Heinitz anton (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: gut. X, 149 S., 22 cm, Bibliotheksexemplar, sekundär gebunden. Sprache: deu.

. 4to. [II],45p. With 4 very large folding tables. Title with fine engraved view. Printed within two-line borders. Contemp. half calf, gilt back with gilt-lettered red label, speckled boards, red edges, marbled endpapers. Fine copy. First edition. A rare book in which the author sketches the economy of a (fictitious) state, its population and its distribution among the various classes, its agricultural production and needs to feed the population, the income and expenditure of the various classes and of the state, etc. Apart from a treatise on mineral production in Prussia this is is only work.The author was a mining engineer and acquired fame as the reformer of the mining industry in Saxony and Prussia. He was one of the founders of the Bergakademie (Technical University) of Freiberg, the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world.A German edition ( Tabellen uber die Staatswirthschaft eines europaischen Staates der vierten Grosse, nebst Betrachtungen uber dieselben') was published the next year.*INED 2239. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths', Einaudi, Mattioli or Humpert.…