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SCHLÜTER, CHRISTOPH ANDREAS. Gründlicher Unterricht von Hütte-Werken...nebst einem vollständigem Probier-Buch. Braunschweig: Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer 1738.
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SCHLÜTER, CHRISTOPH ANDREAS. Gründlicher Unterricht von Hütte-Werken...nebst einem vollständigem Probier-Buch. Braunschweig: Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer 1738.
Folio, 350 x 218 mm. (13 3/4 x 8 9/16 in.), laetr eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboards, title gilt-lettered at head of spine, edges stained red, inner hinges cracked, occasional browning or light spotting, minor creasing to a couple of plates.
FIRST EDITION, large paper copy, gothic type, engraved frontispiece, one engraved head-piece illustration, 58 folding engraved plates of mining tools and structures, of which one full-sheet, the remainder half-sheet but printed on a folding full sheet.
"First edition of the most important mining book of the 18th century. Schlüter...describes not only German mines, but also those of England, Scotland, Scandinavia and South-Eastern Europe" -- Denis I. Duveen. Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica (London 1949).
Folio, 350 x 218 mm. (13 3/4 x 8 9/16 in.), laetr eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboards, title gilt-lettered at head of spine, edges stained red, inner hinges cracked, occasional browning or light spotting, minor creasing to a couple of plates.
FIRST EDITION, large paper copy, gothic type, engraved frontispiece, one engraved head-piece illustration, 58 folding engraved plates of mining tools and structures, of which one full-sheet, the remainder half-sheet but printed on a folding full sheet.
"First edition of the most important mining book of the 18th century. Schlüter...describes not only German mines, but also those of England, Scotland, Scandinavia and South-Eastern Europe" -- Denis I. Duveen. Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica (London 1949).