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Technology - Mechanics - Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert. Theoretical, practical and descriptive exposition of the mechanical sciences. Translated from the English after the third improved edition, and with notes and additions by J. F. W. Dietlein. 2 volumes of text and plates in 3 volumes. With 59 engraved plates by J. G. Sturm. Halle, Hemmerde and Schwetschke, 1828. IV, 669 pp.; XX pp., 1 leaf, 642 pp. 20.5 x 12.5 cm (text) and 22 x 26.5 cm (plate volume). Contemporary half leather bindings, each with 2 colored spine labels and gilt to spine (text) and matching contemporary half leather binding with some gilt to spine and gilt-stamped red cover label (plates) (slightly rubbed, spine with library labels). The only German edition of Gregory's main work "A treatise on mechanics", an expanded translation after the third English edition of 1815 by the German engineer Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Dietlein (1782-1837), who was professor at the Berlin Bauakademie from 1826. - Roberts/Trent 147/148 - DSB V, 530 - Poggendorff I, 571 (Dietlein) and I, 949 (Gregory). - "Gregory was in the midst of early efforts to popularize and disseminate scientific knowledge throughout the United Kingdom and the United States ... Gregory's mathematical, scientific and engineering texts helped to foster academic methods of engineering education while giving a generation of artisan-trained engineers a firm theoretical basis." (Dict. of 19th cent. British Scientists II, 842). - Endpapers and title with canceled stamps of a Danish military library, text somewhat browned and foxed, plates scarce. Good copy, uniformly and decoratively bound. VAT: *
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Technology - Mechanics - Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert. Theoretical, practical and descriptive exposition of the mechanical sciences. Translated from the English after the third improved edition, and with notes and additions by J. F. W. Dietlein. 2 volumes of text and plates in 3 volumes. With 59 engraved plates by J. G. Sturm. Halle, Hemmerde and Schwetschke, 1828. IV, 669 pp.; XX pp., 1 leaf, 642 pp. 20.5 x 12.5 cm (text) and 22 x 26.5 cm (plate volume). Contemporary half leather bindings, each with 2 colored spine labels and gilt to spine (text) and matching contemporary half leather binding with some gilt to spine and gilt-stamped red cover label (plates) (slightly rubbed, spine with library labels). The only German edition of Gregory's main work "A treatise on mechanics", an expanded translation after the third English edition of 1815 by the German engineer Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Dietlein (1782-1837), who was professor at the Berlin Bauakademie from 1826. - Roberts/Trent 147/148 - DSB V, 530 - Poggendorff I, 571 (Dietlein) and I, 949 (Gregory). - "Gregory was in the midst of early efforts to popularize and disseminate scientific knowledge throughout the United Kingdom and the United States ... Gregory's mathematical, scientific and engineering texts helped to foster academic methods of engineering education while giving a generation of artisan-trained engineers a firm theoretical basis." (Dict. of 19th cent. British Scientists II, 842). - Endpapers and title with canceled stamps of a Danish military library, text somewhat browned and foxed, plates scarce. Good copy, uniformly and decoratively bound. VAT: *
