BARBA, Albaro Alonso.

Berg-Büchlein, Darinnen Von der Metallen und Mineralien Generalia und Ursprung, wie auch von derselben Natur und Eigenschafft, Mannigfaltigkeit, Scheidung und Fein-machung, imgleichen allerhand Edelgesteinen, ihrer Generation etc. ausführlich und nutzbarlich gehandelt wird...

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in Teutsch übersetzet von I.L.M.C. One engraved plate. 2 p.l., 128, [2], 129-204, [4] pp. 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed speckled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Hamburg: G. Schultz, 1676. First edition in German and a rather scarce book (1st ed., in Spanish: 1640). “In 1588, Barba (1569-ca. 1640), was sent by the Church to Peru...El Arte was the first significant treatise on metals to be written in Spanish and is the only seventeenth-century treatise that was largely original...It went through approximately thirty editions in Spanish, English, German, and French... “Barba excelled in his account of the treatment of silver ores by amalgamation, using processes that he himself had discovered and that were in large measure responsible for the wealth of the province...Barba was one of the first writers to advocate what amounts to a laboratory control of an entire plant process as well as the computation of all costs (including fuel, mercury, additives, depreciation of equipment, and labor) before undertaking an operation. He describes the local pre-Columbian smelting practice, and the use of the reverberatory furnace for smelting considerably before its widespread adoption.”–D.S.B., I, p. 448. Fine copy. ❧ Hoover 84.

• USD 2,500.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: HillBibl-1355

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