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SCHLUTER, Christoph Andreas. Gründlicher Unterricht von Hütte-Werken. Braunschweig: Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, 1738.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (333 x 210mm.). Engraved allegorical frontispiece by G. D. Heumann after G. J. Arenhold, 2 large engraved headpieces after Arenhold, 58 folding engraved plates by J. G. Schmidt after F. F. Boutterweck. (Some browning to plates, occasional marginal staining.) 19th-century marbled boards (extremities a little rubbed). . Provenance: Fürstlich Löwenstein - Wertheim - Rosenberg'sche Hofbibliothek (stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of a description of mining and smelting operations in northern Europe: the second part deals with the art of assaying and with such processes as refining copper by oxidisation. The author was an official at Braunschweig in English employment, and dedicated his comprehensive work to George II. Partington History of Chemistry II (1961) p. 715.
2 parts in 1 volume, 2° (333 x 210mm.). Engraved allegorical frontispiece by G. D. Heumann after G. J. Arenhold, 2 large engraved headpieces after Arenhold, 58 folding engraved plates by J. G. Schmidt after F. F. Boutterweck. (Some browning to plates, occasional marginal staining.) 19th-century marbled boards (extremities a little rubbed). . Provenance: Fürstlich Löwenstein - Wertheim - Rosenberg'sche Hofbibliothek (stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of a description of mining and smelting operations in northern Europe: the second part deals with the art of assaying and with such processes as refining copper by oxidisation. The author was an official at Braunschweig in English employment, and dedicated his comprehensive work to George II. Partington History of Chemistry II (1961) p. 715.