HENCKEL, Johann Friedrich.

Pyritologia, oder Kieshistorie als des vornehmsten Minerals, nach dessen Namen, Arten, Lagerstätten, Ursprung, Eisen, Kupfer, unmetallischer Erde, Schwefel, Arsenic, Silber, Gold, einfachen Theilgen, Vitriol und Schmelznutzung...auch einer Vorrede vom Nutzen des Bergwerks.

Engraved frontis. & 12 engraved plates. 904 (incl. frontis.), [15] pp. 8vo, cont. half-sheep & speckled boards (sides a little rubbed), spine richly gilt, contrasting vellum lettering piece on spine. Leipzig: Gross, 1754. Second and improved edition of one of the author’s major works; it is “an encyclopedic study of the pyrites...His work on pyrites and other minerals exerted a strong influence on J.H. Pott, J.G. Lehmann, and others engaged in mineral analysis.”–D.S.B., VI, p. 259. The first edition appeared in 1725 and there were later editions in 1757 and 1760. “The most important work of the eighteenth century on pyrites and a key book in the history of chemistry and mineralogy in which the origins, deposits, and industrial uses of sulphide minerals are described.”–Neville, I, p. 618–(lacking this edition). Henkel (or Henckel, 1678-1744), town and mine physician of the famous mining town Freiberg, had an extensive knowledge of mineralogy and wrote a series of “important” (Partington) books on chemistry and mineralogy. His annual course in metallurgical chemistry achieved renown throughout Germany and eastern Europe for its profundity and utility. The attractive and charmingly primitive frontispiece depicts ore being transported from the mine to a smelting shed and other aspects of mining life. The plates depict pyrites in their various forms. Fine copy. ❧ Ferchl, pp. 225-26. Hoover 406. Partington, II, pp. 706-09. Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920 (in progress), 2156–“Very scarce.”

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