Der Bau des Eis-Kellers sowohl in wie über der Erde, vermittelst Torf, Stroh oder Rohr und das Aufbewahren des Eises in demselben : nebst einer Beschreibung zur Anlage von Eisbehältern in Wohngebäuden und Zubereitung des essbaren Eises : ein Rathgeber für Baumeister, Landwirthe, Conditoren, Gastwirthe &c.
An 1848 German guide by C. A. Menzel, published in Halle by C. A. Kümmel, for master builders, farmers, confectioners and innkeepers on constructing ice cellars above and below ground, insulated with peat, straw or reed. The plates are engineering drawings: plans, sections and elevations of cellars and vaults, with labelled figures and dimensioned lettering. A designer might take the clean, measured linework of the cutaway sections, the dense hatching used to show insulation layers, and the tidy numbered-figure layout typical of nineteenth-century technical plates.
