Lot 86
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SHLATTER, IVAN. Obstoiatel'noe nastavlenie rudnomy delu [ Detailed Mining Manual in four parts, describing mining locations, lodes and their discovery, also setting up new mines, mining machinery and sorting, crushing and flushing out of ores, with an addendum regarding coal mining. St. Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, 1760.
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SHLATTER, IVAN. Obstoiatel'noe nastavlenie rudnomy delu [ Detailed Mining Manual in four parts, describing mining locations, lodes and their discovery, also setting up new mines, mining machinery and sorting, crushing and flushing out of ores, with an addendum regarding coal mining. St. Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, 1760.

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SHLATTER, IVAN. Obstoiatel'noe nastavlenie rudnomy delu [ Detailed Mining Manual in four parts, describing mining locations, lodes and their discovery, also setting up new mines, mining machinery and sorting, crushing and flushing out of ores, with an addendum regarding coal mining. St. Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, 1760.

Folio (39.5 x 24.5cm.), engraved frontispiece (torn and defective), 37 folding engraved numbered plates (plates 30 and 33 unnumbered, the others with tears repaired), engraved vignettes in the text (some leaves slightly soiled and a few stained towards the upper inner margin, a few tears occasionally affecting text), contemporary Russian calf (spine and edges sympathetically restored)
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Lot Essay

The first Russian book on mining, printed in 1,000 copies, preceding by three years that by Lomonosov, who had a copy of this work in his library. Svodnyi katalog 3765; Sopikov 6020; Guberti III 90; Obol'ianinov 1504; Bitovt 1325.

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