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or mercenary captain, who was governor of Faenza followed by Zanetti’s
comprehensive account of coinage of that city. It thus shows directly his
method of research and allows a close insight into how the comprehensive
work Nuova raccolta delle monete e delle zecche d’Italia – edited and financed
by Zanetti – could be published by Lelio dalla Volpe, from Bologna, in the
years 1775–1789. Further volumes were projected, but the work remained
unfinished due to Zanetti’s early death; it still remains a most comprehensive
study of Italian coinage.
Both works rare, I. not in Kress Goldsmiths’, Einaudi, or Mattioli, OCLC records
copies at the Warburg Institute and the Paris Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archeologie;
II. see Goldsmiths’-Kress 1340.14, suppl., Einaudi 606; Mattioli 3897; OCLC:
Yale, University of Illinois, Cornell, NYPL.
Waterway Improvements for Economic Benefit
125. [ZIMMERMANN, Johann Carl David.] Ohnmassgebliches
politisches Bedenken über die Schifbarmachung der Elde.
Neubrandenburg, C.G. Korb, 1791.
[bound with:] [BRANDENSTEIN, August Georg von.] Noch etwas
über die Schiffbarmachung der Elde. Schwerin, W. Bärensprung,
1792.
[bound with:][ANON.] Auch etwas über die Schiffbarmachung der
Elde, als Antwort auf das Noch Etwas von einem unpartheyischen
Land-Begüterten. n.p., 1793.
[bound with:] [FLOERKE, Friedrich Jacob.] Epistel an die Patrioten
Mecklenburgs. Von Schiffbarmachung der Elde. Schwerin,
W. Bärensprung, 1793.
[bound with:] [[ZIMMERMANN, Johann Carl David.]
Ohnmassgebliches politisches Erachten über die Möglichkeit
der Schiffbar- oder Fahrbarmachung der von der Stadt Neubrandenburg
bis in die Peene gehenden Tollensee. Neustrelitz,
Michaelis, 1796. £1,850
Five works bound in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 119, [1] bank; vi,
[7]–120, with four folding letterpress tables and one large folding
engraved map (partially hand-coloured); 23; 40; 66; very clean and
crisp; contemporary half purple sheep over glazed red straight-grain
paper boards, flat spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, worm trace to
upper joint, but firm.
First editions of a near comprehensive collection of pamphlet contributions
to the 1791–96 debate on improving the navigability of the river Elde in
the Duchy of Mecklenburg and for the construction of a canal to improve
transport links and thus increase trade in this traditionally agricultural
and poor province. The ambitious plan included a navigable link between
Dömitz in the West and the lakes of the Müritz with the town and harbour
of Waaren in the East. In Dömitz access to the river Elbe and thus to the
North Sea would be achieved. In calculations, folding charts, statistics and
a detailed map a comprehensive picture Mecklenburg’s economy is given,
with details of its improvement through transport links. Calculations of
tolls to be collected at each lock, current production rates and transport
cost of grain, fodder, livestock and tobacco, with a subsequent analysis of
the potential benefits of reaching a wider market through canal access to
the North Sea. Proposals for the financing of the scheme included of course
state support, and the introduction of a share scheme.
A large folding map by ECA Behrens after Münchmayer is also included.
Despite general approval for the scheme, some opposing voices were also
heard, who feared the collapse of the grain price, when faced with a more
international market, the decline of the country towns, and overambitious
expansion. As a result of these consultations, navigability of the Elde was
improved and further canals added in the mid-nineteenth century.
I. Heess, Geschichtliche Bibliographie von Mecklenburg 6794, Holzmann-Bohatta I
4245; II. Heess 6798; III. Heess 6801; IV Heess 6800, Holzmann-Bohatta II
1095; V Heess 6807, Holzmann-Bohatta II 1269 (1797).
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