Author: Hoffmann, J. C. (ed.)
Title: Beschreibung und Abbildung einer Wagenwinde von außerordentlicher Wirksamkeit.
Description: Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer dem Jüngern, 1800. Square 4to (21.9 x 19.0 cm). 20 pp. (including two title pages), one large, folded, engraved plate. Contemporary blind speckled boards. = The description and illustration of an innovative winch, apparently based on a design of the mathematician and polymath Abel Bürja (1752-1816). A few, isolated small spots, light offsetting from the plate to the text, the plate, on blue paper, in very good condition. In all a very good copy. Very rare.

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