CHARPENTIER, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Toussaint von.

Beobachtungen über die Lagerstätte der Erze, hauptsächlich aus den sächsischen Gebirgen. Ein Beytrag zur Geognosie.

Seven very finely engraved plates (one or two in marvelous mezzotint). 4 p.l., x, 206, [1] pp. Large 4to, cont. half-sheep & boards (minor foxing), spine richly gilt, green & brown morocco lettering pieces on spine. Leipzig: G.J. Göschen, 1799. First edition, a magnificent large-paper copy printed on fine paper. Charpentier (1738-1805), was professor at the Bergakademie at Freiberg and an important mining official. His son Johann also became a well-known geologist. This is a highly significant book in the history of geology as it contains the results of a long period of additional observation and study based on the original research in his Mineralogische Geographie der Chursächsischen Lande (1778), which is considered to be “a classic in the early geological literature of Germany.”–Zittel, p. 38. In both works, Charpentier concentrated on the question of the genesis of ore deposits. This book, directed against Werner’s Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gänge (1791), contains excellent descriptions of the veins and other mineral occurrences of Saxony. Fine copy. The handsome plates depict mineral veins. ❧ Adams, The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences, p. 313–“excellent.” A.D.B., Vol. 4, pp. 105-07. Poggendorff, I, 422-23.

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