CRAMER, Johann Andreas.

Anfangsgründe der Probierkunst, in zweyen Theilen abgefasset, von welchen der erste die Theorie, der andere die Ausübung, in der natürlichen Ordnung und einer sehr verständlichen Lehrart darstellet...aus dem Lateinischen ins Deutsche übersetzt von C.E. Gellert.

> Klicken Sie hier, um das Bild in voller Größe zu betrachten.

Six folding engraved plates. 32, 320, [18], [323]-682, [22] pp. 8vo, cont. speckled boards (extremities a little worn, some browning). Stockholm: G. Kiesewetter, 1746. First edition in German of this famous metallurgical textbook, a greatly enlarged reworking of his Elementa Artis Docimasticae (1st ed., in Latin: 1739), translated and with the valuable notes of C.E. Gellert, professor of metallurgical chemistry at the Freiberg Bergakademie. Cramer (1710-77), was the first to reduce the art of assaying in metallurgy into a system and his textbook was the first of its kind. The first edition is a “profusely illustrated work [which] encompassed the entire art of assaying in two parts, one theoretical and one practical. In the preface he referred to the works of Agricola, Lazarus Ercker, and Stahl. All the instruments and apparatus of contemporary analytical chemistry were depicted and described exactly. In the Elementa, Cramer first described the use of the blowpipe in smelting small amounts of substances and in analyzing them.”–D.S.B., Supp., p. 94. Cramer, “the greatest assayer of his time” (A.D.B.), was appointed director of the Brunswick Mining and Metallurgy Administration in the Harz Mountains. The fine plates depict numerous metallurgical operations and instruments. Very good copy. ❧ A.D.B., Vol. 4, pp. 547-48. Ferchl, p. 107. Hoover 238. Neville, I, p. 301–“One of the greatest works on analytical chemistry of the eighteenth century” (no copy of this ed. in the Neville collection). Partington, II, pp. 710-11. Poggendorff, I, 493-94. Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920 (in progress), 1193–“Very scarce.”

• USD 2,250.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: HillBibl-1292

• Antiquariat: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (USA)