Oeconomischer Wegweiser, das ist: die gemeine Hausshaltungs-Wissenschafft, und deren nützlichste Ubung so kürtzlich als gründlich dergestalt beschrieben, daß dadurch die Nutzungen, welche bey gemeinen Haußhalt gesucht werden, reichlich zufinden, und wohl damit zugebahren [...]

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IDEM. Beglückter Pachter, das ist: Eine sonderbahrnützliche Anzeige, was zur Pacht-Nahrung fürnehmlich gehöre und wie dieselbe fürsichtig anzutreten, wohl zuführen und nützlich zuenden [...] Jena, Matthäus Birckner, 1680.

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IDEM. Kurtz begriffene Nachricht wie mit Zuziehung des Oecon. Wegweisers, uf Forwergen, Ritter- oder anderen Freygüthern, weitleufftiger Haußhalt wohl zu verführen [...] Jena, Matthäus Birckner, 1680.

Three works in one volume, 8vo (165x110 mm). I: [16], 652, [28] pp. and [2] leaves of woodcut diagrams bound between pages 426 and 427. Additionally, there is one woodcut diagram in the text; II: [16], 143, [1] pp.; III: 160 [recte 106] pp., [3 blank] ll. Contemporary stiff vellum with yapped edges, inked title on spine. Slightly uniformly browned. A very good, genuine copy.

Sammelband containing the rare first editions of all three known works on domestic economy, family management and agriculture by the Jena-born author Christoph Hering. The first two texts were reprinted in a single volume in 1750. Together they form a comprehensive manual (Oeconomischer Wegweiser means ‘Economic Guide') for the householder, with chapters on marriage, livestock management, baking, slaughtering, cooking, brewing, animal husbandry, horticulture, forestry, the relationship with the servants, and the rights and duties of tenants. All three works also contains chapters on viticulture, respectively pp. 475-529 of the Oeconomischer Wegweiser, pp. 125-127 of the Beglückter Pachter, and pp. 73-78 of the Kurtz begriffene Nachricht.

“Despite all the similarities in the basic tendencies, it cannot be overlooked that the balance between hierarchy and equality within the group of house-keeping books (as well as within the text genre of marriage sermons) takes different forms. While Christoph Hering (1680) focuses on the equality of the spouses (both need each other to run the household), Johann Wilhelm Wündsch (1683 augmented edition) emphasises the superiority of the husband, as does the Lutheran Johann Christoph Coler (several editions from 1596 to 1716), who makes it clear right at the beginning that the Oeconomia is a monarchy, that the husband alone is master of the house and that everything must be governed by him […] Where Hering speaks separately of the duties of the mother of the house (chapters 3 and 10), he mentions the subordination of the woman. However, where he discusses the mutual relations between the spouses (chap. 11, pp. 74-82), he repeatedly uses the gender-neutral formula of the ‘eine-der andere' (‘one other'). Although the woman is granted her own sphere of authority, the superior position of the man is also given for granted. The result is an intricate web of the domina status of the mother of the house with the simultaneous subordination to the father of the house and the equality of the spouses in their direct dealings with each other. Where the relationship between the spouses is addressed, we are dealing with the equality of the spouses, as in the marriage sermons. Where the economically relevant relationship between father and mother is discussed, the hierarchical relationship predominates. The economic discourse and the marriage discourse produce different relationships in Hering's ‘economy' - of housefather/housewife on the one hand, of husband/wife on the other […] Hering, Oeconomischer Wegweiser, p. 21, says that it is an advantage of marriage to have someone at one's side who can make a good suggestion from time to time, and warns on p. 81 that the husband should not disregard his wife's advice […] Hering claims to describe not only the ‘common science of husbandry', but also ‘its most useful exercise', i.e. its implementation in practice. He believes that he achieves this convergence of discourse and practice at the written level by transforming his economic practical experience into a text. Hering knows, however, that taught economics always lags behind the experience of everyday life. On the one hand, he has noticed that the existing economics has not described many details, on the other hand, he himself has always learned new things by ‘observando' and ‘practicando' (‘observing and practicing') in everyday life. This means, however, that the knowledge presented in academic discourse can only ever be provisional, and that practical knowledge is actually infinite. Although Hering tries to eliminate this difference with his ‘economics', he is satisfied with the aim that his work is less about giving advice than about giving suggestions for right budgeting. The household science (episteme) presented in his Oeconomischer Wegweiser thus conveys empirical knowledge (phronesis), but there is always a difference between written-literary, scientific knowledge and the experiential knowledge that is constantly expanded through the daily testing of this knowledge” (R. Schnell, Concordia im Haus-Vielfalt der Diskurse (1300-1700), in: “Das Haus schreiben. Bewegungen ökonomischen Wissens in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit”, Ch. Schaefer & S. Zeisberg, eds., Wiesbaden, 2018, pp. 45, 48, and 58-59).

Güntz, I, 132; Humpert, 184 & 185; Weiss, 1560; Bibliotheca Gastronomica Walter Putz, p. 59; I: VD 17, 23:646051Z; Schoene, 3724; II: VD 17, 23:646064D; Schoene, 3723; III: VD 17, 23:646059L.

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