WOLTERSDORFF, Johann Lucas.

Systema Minerale in quo Regni Mineralis Producta Omnia systematice per Classes, Ordines, Genera et Species proponuntur.

60 pp. Oblong 4to, cont. half-sheep & speckled boards (corners a bit worn), spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Berlin: Real-Schule, 1755. Second edition, “von dem Verfasser selbst vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage”; this is a very rare book. The first edition appeared in 1748. Woltersdorff (1721-72), was a clergyman in Berlin; as a hobby he formed a large mineral collection. “In attempting to organize his mineral collection in 1740, Woltersdorff found difficulties in the prevailing systems of Gesner, Woodward, and Scheuchzer. He there after developed his own method which is an early attempt to classify species by chemical composition. The text presents this classification in a series of tables in Latin and German. The major divisions are earths, stones, salts, hard earths, semimetals, metals and petrifications.”–Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920 (in progress), p. 1531. Fine copy. With the characteristic red stamp on verso of title of August Ferdinand, Graf von Veltheim (1741-1801), an important mining official in the Harz Mountains and the author of a number of mineralogical and mining works. He formed an important scientific library and they all seemingly have survived in fine condition. ❧ Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920 (in progress)–“Rare. The text is in double columns of Latin and German.” Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799, p. 91–“Among the German clergy, Johann Woltersdorff (1721-1772) is most famous because of his work on systematic mineralogy published in 1748.”

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