LOHR, Johannes Andreas Christian

Die Kunste und Gewerbe des Menschen. Zum Behuf nutzlicher Kenntnisse in 104 Abbildungen [The Arts and Crafts of Man ... in 104 Illustrations]

Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, [1819].

Octavo, viii, [v]-viii, 416, [4] (publisher's catalogue) pages with 104 full-page woodcut illustrations.

Contemporary marbled papered boards with a contrasting paper title-label (and part of a contemporary library paper label) on the spine; binding rubbed at the extremities and worn at the corners, with some loss (to silverfish) to the spine; paper a little discoloured, with some foxing and offsetting; occupations identified in pencil in English at the head of each page of descriptive text; loss of about one-third of the leading margin of one leaf of text (with no loss of text); marginal creases to two leaves (production flaws); short marginal tears to two leaves expertly sealed; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy.

Attractive woodcut illustrations of 104 trades and professions of the day, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text: pharmacist, cooper, pastry-cook, turner, carpenter, organ-builder, vinegar-maker, butcher, glazier, hatmaker, huntsman, tinsmith ... and that's just the first dozen. Johannes Andreas Christian Lohr (1764-1823) was a German theologian, teacher and author, mainly of books on education and for children. Provenance: the contemporary inkstamp of 'Leyendeckers Institut Wiesbaden' on the verso of the title page (and the remains of small paper labels on the spine and front pastedown); the later inkstamp of a Lutheran church in Australia on the front free endpaper.

Item #115388

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