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New designs for a sluice and dredging machine,<br />
beautifully illustrated, presentation copy to Christiaan Brunings,<br />
inspector of the original design and writer of a preliminary text<br />
16. R EDELY KHEID, Cornelis. De nieuw uitgevonden sluis met in- en uitschuivende deuren.<br />
With: (2) R EDELY KHEID, Cornelis. De nieuw uitgevonden diep-machine.<br />
The Hague, Hendrik Christoffel Gutteling; Amsterdam, Jacob Yntema & Jacob Tieboel; for the author, 1774. 2 works in 1 volume. Large 2º<br />
(49.5 × 31 cm). Ad 1 with 6 large folding engraved plates and ad 2 with 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. € 7500<br />
Two rare first editions, in the original Dutch, containing detailed<br />
descriptions and illustrations of two new inventions in water <strong>engineering</strong>:<br />
a sluice with sliding gates and a dredging machine. They were<br />
designed by the accomplished engineer Cornelis Redelykheid (1728–<br />
1788), well-known in his time, but often overlooked in modern literature.<br />
The descriptions are accompanied by a total of 9 detailed large<br />
folding plates and especially the dredging machine is looking ingenious.<br />
Redelykheid was already working on his sluice with sliding gates in<br />
1772 and a model was built, one fourth its intended size. The model<br />
was inspected and tested by the water engineer Christiaan Brunings<br />
(1736–1805), then inspector general of rivers & waterways, who later<br />
founded the Dutch water management department now known as<br />
“Rijkswaterstaat”. Brunings wrote an extensive and positive rapport on<br />
the sluice, which led Redelykheid to be awarded with 1000 gold ducats<br />
by the States of Holland. The award enabled the inventor to publish<br />
the present two works on his own expense, both including a preface by<br />
Brunings. As a grateful gesture Redelykheid presented the present copy<br />
to Brunings, with an inscription on each of the two title-pages.<br />
With library stamp and tiny bookplate. Only some minor thumbing<br />
in the margins of a few leaves and the leaves facing the plates slight<br />
discoloured where the leaves overlap the fold of the plates, otherwise in<br />
very good condition, text leaves untrimmed, leaving wide margins and<br />
with the plates in very crisp impressions. Binding rubbed, with ends of<br />
the spine slightly damaged, but still firm and otherwise good.<br />
Bierens de Haan 3902 & 3900; Sloos, Gewapend met kennis, pp. 208–209; not in Roberts &<br />
Trent; for the author: NNBW VIII, cols. 1266–1268.