| auction house |
Központi Antique Book Shop |
| date of auction |
d-m-Y H:i |
| title of auction |
Books |
| date of exhibition |
not given |
| auction contact |
(00 361) 317-3514 | aukcio@kozpontiantikvarium.hu | www.kozpontiantikvarium.hu |
| link of auction |
https://axioart.com/aukcio/2002-05-03/konyv-06 |
110. item
Marsigli, (Luigi Fernando) Le comte de: La Hongrie et le Danube par --, En XXXI. Cartes tres fidélement gravées d'aprés les Desseins originaux & les Plans levez sur les lieux par l'Auteur meme. Ouvrage ou l'on voit la Hongrie, par rapport a ses Rivieres,
Marsigli served in the army of Emperor Leopold I, partly as an engineer, from 1682 to 1704, and attained high rank. He was used by the Emperor on diplomatic missions to the Pope and in peace negotiations with the Turks. After the long war he was employed to arrange the boundaries between the Venetian Republic, Turkey, and the Empire. In the midst of his work as a soldier he had always found enough leisure to devote to his favourite scientific pursuits. He drew plans, made astronomical observations, measured the speed and size of rivers, studied the products, the mines, the birds, fishes, and fossils of every land he visited, and also collected specimens of every kind, instruments, models, antiquities, etc. His chief work, Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus appeared in 1726, the maps were also published as a separate entity. He discussed the riverbed and waters, and, since he appears to have been a born cartographer, he mapped everything he dealt with: the flora and fauna, and the mineralogy and geology of the adjacent land. The importance of his atlas is well shown in the fact that it served as the main source for foreign publishers. The folding plate is a cross-section view of the tunnels of the mines at Selmecbánya. Restored half cloth binding.
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