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Show LUIKEN, JAN EN K ASPER, 1670-1710 Spiegel van het Menselyk Bedryf, vertoonende honderd verscheide Ambachten, Konstig afgebeeld, en met Godlyke Spreuken en StitchtIyke Verzen verrykt. Amsterdam, 17:8. 10x16 cm In this Dutch book of trades there are one hundred engravings, one o which represents the papermaker. T his volume was founded on the wor of Abraham Van Saint Clara which was published in 1717. The onl difference in the two plates depicting the papermalker is that in the late edition the picture was reversed, showing it had been traced from the en graving of 1717 STURM, LEONHARDT CHRISTOPH, 1669-1719 Vollstindige Miihlen Baukunst. Augsburg, 17:8. 23x35 cm The earliest engraving of the Hollander, or beating-engine, maybe found in this rare volume on machinery and mill appliances. Beating-engine 'were introduced abou the year rjoo and wer used for the maceratio of rags for papermaking ‘These machines super seded theancientstamping-mills as pictured b Zoncaand Boeckleran reproduced on pages 1 and 18 of this bibliogra phy The Hollanders wer usually placed inacircl in the mills so that fou T, earljest engraving of the Hollander orwerefive operate of the machine From Vollstandige Mihlen Baukunst by on huge wooden wheel, fitted with stout round pegs which acted as cogs In the engraving are pictured five Hollanders and two millstones. Th mill.stones were used for grinding grain; at the same time the beaters wer reducing rags to pulp for making into paper, T his rather incongruous combination was seldom used by the Dutch papermakers and the placing o the mill.stones in the print was little more than a phantasy of Sturm, the designer, who executed the drawing after a tour of inspection of the pape mills of Holland This volume by Leonhardt Christoph Sturm is one of the rarest an ‘mostimportant books of the eighteenth century that treats of papermaking |
