Lot 678

DINGLER, Johann Gottfried (1778-1855, editor), and others. Polytechnisches Journal, Stuttgart [and Berlin], 1820-1908, vols. 1 - 323 bound in 302 vols. and 2 index vols. (lacking vols. 69, 261 and 270), folding plates, various bindings. (304)

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Hammer price: £500
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DINGLER, Johann Gottfried (1778-1855, editor), Emil Maximilian DINGLER (1806-74, editor), and others.  Polytechnisches Journal. Stuttgart and Berlin: In der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung [with variants to the imprint and editors later in the run], 1820-1908. Volumes 1 - 323 bound in 302 volumes (lacking vols. 69, 261 and 270) and with 2 index volumes; vols. 1 - 280: 8vo (218 x 130mm) and vols. 281 - 323: folio (310 x 220mm). Folding engraved and lithographed plates at the end of the octavo vols., a few hand-coloured, some printed on pale blue paper; half tone and wood-engraved illustrations in the folio vols. (some spotting and staining, a few plates loose or detached). Vols. 1 - 74 in contemporary [?or publisher's] near-uniform blue paper boards with manuscript spine labels, yellow edges; vols. 75 - 323 in contemporary [?or publisher's] near-uniform marbled paper boards with orange gilt lettering pieces (variously worn, but generally in a remarkable state of preservation). Provenance: unidentified blue institutional stamps on titles; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. A VERY SUBSTANTIAL RUN OF THIS CELEBRATED GERMAN SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL, the oldest German technical journal not affiliated to a trade association, and one of the most important technical journals of the 19th-century. Johann Gottfried Dingler, the German chemist and industrialist, founded and edited the journal from its inception until 1840, when it was taken over by his son Emil. After 111 years of continuous publication, the Journal ceased publication in 1931 in the wake of the world economic crisis. An old typed catalogue index card for the set indicates that the three missing volumes in the sequence (i.e. vols. 69, 261 and 270) have been missing for some time, although the same index card records the presence of 3 further folio vols. at the end of the run (1909-11) which are not here present. The first of the 2 index volumes, dated 1843, covers vols. 1 - 78; the second, dated 1853, covers vols. 79 - 118. Kirchner 3940; Poggendorff I, 573. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (304)

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