Handbuch der Veterinaerkunde
XX SF748 V4 1840
The Handbuch der Veterinaerkunde fuer Physiker, Thieraerzte, und Oekonomen, or “The Veterinary Handbook for Doctors, Vetrinarians, and Economists, was written by Johann Emanuel Veith. It was published in Vienna in 1840 in commission by Carl Gerold. It is a handbook on Veterinary sciences for physicists or doctors, veterinarians, and economists.
Johann Emanuel Veith was born in Bohemia in 1787 to a Jewish family. He attended the University of Prague and converted to Catholicism. He was a priest and preacher, writer, and a M.D and Veterinarian.1 He was a director and professor at the Vienna Thierarzenei Institute2
Appearance
The cover of Vetrinaerkunde is rather plain, with agreen and gold marbled, with places where the color has rubbed off. The spine has a orange label that is peeling off with gold decoration. The spine has nicks and dents, indicating some use.
Significance
Intellectual: This book was passed on to multiple people in the Veterinary and Agriculture Science field, showing that it held a great deal of important and significant information. It is not in Latin or a “higher” intellectual language, meaning it was meant for the average person to read and gain knowledge from.
Origins: The Commissioner/Publisher
This book was published by the Carl Gerold Verlag in 1840. The publishing house was started in 1775 by Joseph Gerold. His son, Carl, later took it over in 1813 and within 40 years was one of the leading publishing houses in Austria. He was also the first Austrian publisher to adopt the lithographic printing technology. The Carl Gerold Verlag is still around today as the Carl Gerold Sohn’s Verlagsbuchhandlung.3
Ownership
The order of ownership is not entirely certain in this case, time-wise as some of the owners lived around the same time, and most likely had contact with one another. However, it would be logical to assume the ownership goes in order of the book labels.
A.E Foote
The first label, is the hardest to see. The picture cannot show it very clearly, but in person the label is easier to read. The label was either on the other side of the page, which was glued down, or covered by another label. The most legible part of the label is the name A.E Foote. Upon further research the label seems to match one found by another that reads “Scientific and Medical/Books and Minerals./DR. A. E. FOOTE,/Philadelphia, Pa.”4 and closely resembles this historical book label.5
Albert Edward Foote was born in 1846 in New York. He graduated from Courtland Academy and acquired his medical degree at the University of Michigan. He became a well renowned mineralogist and acquired a much larger collection of minerals than he needed. In 1875 he moved to Philadelphia where his mineral business was born, but he also did on occasion visit Europe. Which means, because of the book label, he owned this book sometime after 1875. He additionally sold science and medical books. His mineral exhibits were award winning and he built one of the most successful mineral dealerships in history.6 He also published catalogs of his minerals and books for sale, along with books he was requesting to get.7 Foote passed away in 1895.
T.D Hinebauch
Theries D. Hinebauch was a Veterinarian who’s primary focus was on dental health for animals, and wrote a book that was very valued in the field on equine dental health.8 He was the first veterinarian and one of the first professors hired at the North Dakota Agricultural College in 1890.9 Around 1905 Hinebauch moved to Michigan to farm, and visited the Michigan State Agricultural College.10 No information about his date of birth and death could be found. It can be assumed, however, that he would have been at least mid twenties (most probably older) when he started teaching at North Dakota College so he would have been born at the latest in 1863-65, most likely earlier.
T.C Abbot
Theophilus Cappen Abbot was born in 1826 in Maine. At the age of 15 he had enrolled in University and had graduated by 1845. Abbot started as a literature Professor at Michigan State Agricultural College in 1858, before slowly making his way up to become the 3rd President of the College in 1862. He served as president until 1885. T.C Abbot passed away in 1892.11 Because of the fact that Hinebauch visited the college later, it is possible that the two would have met at some point before this published visit and perhaps exchanged the book between them.
Michigan State Agricultural College/MSU
Of course the final, or current, owner is Michigan State University, or at the beginning time of ownership, Michigan State Agricultural College. Like the stamp for T.C Abbot states, it was probably given by his wife. The Agricultural College marked their ownership both with a large label, that was possibly pasted over Foote’s label. And it also has the embossed stamp throughout the book.
Pricing Code
On the end cover is a pricing code. There isn’t very much discernible information from this, but it does indicate that this book was once sold, perhaps by A.E Foote.
Citations
- Congress. “LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies
(Library of Congress).” LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress. Accessed October 16, 2018. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88168661.html. - “BLKÖ:Veith, Johann Elias.” BLKÖ:Veith, Johann Elias – Wikisource.
Accessed October 16, 2018. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLKÖ:Veith,_Johann_Elias. - “Über Uns.” Carl Gerold’s Sohn Verlagsbuchhandlung. Accessed October 18, 2018. https://www.gerold-verlag.at/ueber-uns/.
- “AE Foote, Scientific Books in Philadelphia.” The Exile Bibliophile.
Accessed October 18, 2018.
http://exilebibliophile.blogspot.com/2008/08/ae-foote-scientific-
books-in.html. - “Seven Roads.” Seven Roads Gallery of Book Trade Labels: F. Accessed
October 18, 2018. http://sevenroads.org/Labels/F.html. - The Mineralogical Record – Label Archive. Accessed October 18,
- https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?
page=3&colid=477. - “The Naturalists’ Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin. 1892-1893”
HathiTrust. Accessed October 18, 2018. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036799636;view. - History and Future of Equine Dental Care. January 2005. Accessed
October 17, 2018.
http://www.ivis.org/proceedings/navc/2005/LA/069.pdf?LA=1. - “Archives.” NDSU Historical Facts | Archives. Accessed October 17, 2018. https://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/ndsu-historical-facts.
- “M.A.C Record.” Accessed October 17, 2018. http://spartanhistory.kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/1/4/1-4-623-54-
19050214sm.pdf. - “Global Topical Navigation.” Theophilus C. Abbot | MSU Presidents
Since 1857 | University Archives | Michigan State University. Accessed October 18, 2018.
http://www.archives.msu.edu/collections/presidents_abbot_c.php.
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