WOLF, Ferdinand. 
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WOLF, Ferdinand. Die Verfertigung der Handfeuerwaffen nebst einer geschichtlichen Darstellung ihrer Einrichtung von der Entstehung bis auf die neueste Zeit. Mit achtzehn Kupfertafeln. with: Achtzehn Kupfertafen zu Ferdinand Wolfs Verfertigung der Hand- Feuerwaffen nebst Erklärung der Tafeln und Hinweisung auf die Paragraphen des Werks. Nach der Wirklichkeit gezeichnet von dem Verfasser. Karlsruhe, Christian Theodor Groos, 1832. Two volumes, 8vo (210 x 127mm) and large Landscape Folio (276 x 455mm), pp. xx, 451, [1] errata; [viii], 18 plates with 250 illustrations after drawings by the author; each bound in similar contemporary full red hatched morocco: 8vo with central gilt lozenge and gilt borders, spine ornately gilt in compartments; folio with gilt fillets and blind roll; upper cover lettered gilt direct, rebacked; title page verso of the second volume with stamp of the Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen.
A finely bound copy of this important technical assessment of the history and production of small arms in Germany. This treatise on arms manufacture and a compendium of accompanying engraved schematics form a remarkably detailed appraisal of the development of weapon manufacture at the outset of the European industrial revolution. Wolf outlines the materials necessary for gun-making, including the production and availability of iron. He describes the manufacturing processes of each part of this military weaponry and concludes with a depiction of different kinds of rifles and their evolution. The fine engravings pertain to the manufacture of small arms, machines and other equipment, with detailed information about the evolution of gun making, as well as an explication of the machines used and their constituent parts. The author Ferdinand Wolf (1796-1861) was a captain in the Grand Ducal Line Infantry Regiment, and was for two years a commander of the rifle factory in St. Blasien. The factory, which was based in converted abbey, was one of the earliest sites of industrial manufacturing in Germany. It had been founded in the first decade of the century by mechanic and inventor Johann Georg Bodmer, with the financial backing of David von Eichthal (1776-1851), ‘one of the leading industrialists in Baden in the first half of the 19th century’ (NDB IV, p. 386). The company’s main products were handguns, but Bodmer also ran tests with the new technology of rear loading systems for canons, and produced an early version of the conveyor belt as well as producing coin-making machines for the Mannheim mint. Wolf's experience allowed him to gain a detailed insight into the interior of a rifle factory which he outlines in great detail in section 4.
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Sachgebiete: Militaria, Technikgeschichte, Verkaufskataloge
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