Trifolium mercantile aureum, oder dreyfaches guldenes Klee-Blat der werthen Kauffmannschafft, bestehend: 1) In des Autoris seinen wohlgemeynten Vorschlag von einer neu zu eroffnenden Kauffmanns-Academie. 2) Einem vollstandigen Collegio uber die Wissenschafft der Commercien, und 3) Einer lehrreichen mechanischen Werck-Schul .

MARPERGER, Paul Jacob (1656-1730)

Published by Dresden und Leipzig, in Verlegung des Autoris 1723

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. Small 8vo. [XIV],343[i.e. 345, p.142/143 twice],[15]p. With an engraved frontispiece. Recent decorated boards, back with gilt green label. First (only) edition. A project for the establishment of institutions for the education of children and adults for technical and commercial professions. A rare volume by this prolific author of works on commerce and trade. In it, he sketched out his "well-intended suggestions" for opening a merchant academy, a commercial college (also referred to as a Mercantilische Informations-Collegium') and a variety of mechanical work schools in Saxony. His suggestions hinged upon a diagnosis of the problems currently besetting the existing educational establishment, which Marperger insisted were many. Opportunities to learn about Commercia, or commercial wares and things, did not exist at universities. Throughout Saxony, merchants, mechanics and handworkers were treated as foreigners, their expertise unappreciated, not to mention the fact that they tended to know very little about the commercial theories underlying the professions they practised . The Trifolium' contained a kind of early blueprint for elaborated training programmes for young miners, mechanics, engineers or other "artisanal experts"' (Kelly J. Whitmer, Projects and pedagogical expectations: Inside P. J. Marperger's golden clover leaf' (Trifolium), 1700 1730').*Kress S.3093. Humpert 5245. There were reprints of this in 1990 and 1997. Seller Inventory # 20366

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Title: Trifolium mercantile aureum, oder dreyfaches...

Publisher: Dresden und Leipzig, in Verlegung des Autoris 1723

Binding: Hardcover