Hisinger´s ... mineralogischen Geographie
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MINERALOGY. HISINGER, W. Versuch einer mineralogischen Geographie von Schweden. Umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. Aus der Handschrift übersetzt von F. Wöhler.
Leipzig (Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth) 1826.
8:o. (3),IVVI, (1)-250 pp. (Lacks engraved plate).
Near contemporary brown half leather, somewjat worn, slightly faded gilt spine, marbled edges. Sigbature on inside of upper cover. Bookplate of Carl Sahlin.
From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.
See text. Lacks the plate
