Latvijas dzirnavas
Full details
| English title | Mills in Latvia |
| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Daugava |
| Year of publication | 1985 |
| Languages | English (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN | 9197075817 |
| Topics | Wind & watermills > Other Europe (not GB) > Nordic & Baltic countries |
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Copies held
Accession no. 21720
- Shelf location: C115.5-TEI
- Donor: Ken Major Collection
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Divisions within this publication
- 1: Introduction the general development of milling equipment
- 2: Early methods of grinding grain Pounding stones, mortars and pestles
- 3: Rotating querns Rotating millstones and querns; Horse mills; Treadmills
- 4: Watermills Watermills in Riga and vicinity; Watermills outside of Riga; The machinery of the watermills; The buildings of the watermills; “Perpetuum mobile” watermills
- 5: Windmills Post mills in Riga and vicinity; Smock mills; Rural post mills; Paltrok mills; Rural smock mills; Wooden smock mills; Stone smock mills
- 6: Further development of milling The mill buildings; The beginnings of Latvian ownership of mills; An economic survey of milling in Latvia
- 7: Data and surveys on mills in the 17th-20th centuries
- 8: Millers and millwrights Millwrights and guilds; Millers
- 9: The Latvian mills in art and literatureArt; Literature
- 10: Footnotes; Bibliography; List of illustrations; Gazetteer; Supplement
- 11: List of mills (by district); Alphabetical index of millsEnglish summary; German summary
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