Can anyone here read German - need to translate title page from 1798 book

[debbierlus]

I tried Babel Fish but it wasn't working.

Any help would be very appreciated!

The book is from 1798.

[cwydro]

1. Miss Honeychurch is German and posts here in the early

morning hours. She could definitely help you. I will direct her to your thread when I see her tomorrow, if you have not heard anything by then.

[debbierlus]

3. Thanks - That would be great!

:)

[cwydro]

5. Bookmarking this thread and will get back to you tomorrow

in the am.

[Chan790]

2. If you dont get an answer from anybody on DU...

if you transcribe it to text for me, I'll send it to my friend Art as he's fluent in German. It'll probably take him a few days to a week to get you a translation.

[debbierlus]

4. Thanks - I will see if I get any answers & if not, I will take you up on it!

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. I'll give it a go, take the old High-School Deutsch out for a spin...

GodImFried "Ludolf" PotSmoker's encylopaedic study of foreskins, or, "totally stoned, the stated variations in natural schwing, in alphabaetical order". Here is a drawing of a woman who attempted to float away, several times, to hide from her needy children. This happened in Berlin, 1798 times. In the bowling alley, are hot dogs and snacks. This is a commercial for Joachim Pauli's snack bar. Eat at Joachim's.





How'd I do?

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Here:

D. Johann Georg Krünitz
economical - technological
Encyclopedia
or general system
of
government-, city-, home-, and agriculture (economics for the first three ones)
as well as
of earth geology, art and natural history
in alphabetic order.

Continued
by
Friedrich Jakob Floerken

75th part
Passion through -lein (book ends on words ending of 'lein')
besides 68 copper board drawings on 10 1/4 paper (guess there are some big illustrations in there. No clue how big 10 1/4 are.)
With Royal Prussian and electoral prince privileges (can't read the last word, guess it's 'privileges')
Berlin 1798
At the bookstore of the royal Prussian secret commercial counselor
Joachim Pauli

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. I'm fairly certain that is incorrect.

[Call Me Wesley]

11. Yeah, sorry.

I left the snack bar at St. Pauli out. My bad!

:rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. There, that's better.

(adjusts monocle in an educated manner) ;)

[Call Me Wesley]

14. You must be Joachim, then.

Never got the title of 'Secret commercial counselor' though, eh? ;)

[debbierlus]

15. It does have big illustrations, the fold outs are bigger then two pages of both side of book

The illustrations are really unusual. Some are violent....

Really unusual book.

[cwydro]

19. How cool!

I did get the one word - Encyclopedia!:P

What a great book!

[jakeXT]

9. 242 volumes, found an interesting pdf

http://archiv.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/2005/0070/data/seifert.pdf

[Call Me Wesley]

13. Great find!

Must have filled up a whole two bookshelves!

[jakeXT]

10. delete

[nickinSTL]

16. post #7 from Call Me Wesley has it right

Just so you know.

My German is pretty good, and I'd say he's right on.

[Orrex]

17. Three peanuts were walking down the Straße, and one of them was assaulted

Peanut.

[MissHoneychurch]

18. Do you have only that book

or more from this series? It was and is a very important encyclopedia. There is an online version of it. http://www.kruenitz1.uni-trier.de/

It is very helpful when you need explanation for certain words we don't use anymore. We had an exhibition a couple of years ago and I remember that I searched the online Krünitz for explanations.

[debbierlus]

20. Only this one - I bought it for the engravings which are numerous and some large

I don't speak German & I had NO idea what the book was about...

The illustrations are truly unique and I think the art is what will hold the value above the book (it doesn't hurt that the book is completely intact).

[debbierlus]

21. Is there anyway you could give me the link to this edition -

It is tough to find without being able to read German...


THANKS!