ERCKER, Lazarus (ca. 1530-1594). Beschreibung: Allerfrnemisten mineralischen Ertzt, unnd Berckwercks arten . Prague: Georg Schwartz, 1574. 2 o (288 x 185 mm). Title printed in red and black. Woodcut pictorial vignette on title, 33 large woodcut illustrations of mining, smelting and assaying operations, apparatus, furnaces, etc. (Lacking final blank Nn6, some minor browning.) 17th- or 18th-century German sheep over pasteboard, upper cover with central gilt wreath surrounding owner's initials "AHD" and date 1718, spine gilt (some early repairs to spine ends, rubbed, a few minor defects), half morocco folding case. Provenance : Jacobus Syrbius of Colditz near Meissen, pastor at Schnbrunn [Thuringer Wald], 17 September 1643 ("Jacobus Syrbius Colditio Misnicus pastor Schnbrunno Wiesenus", inscription on title page); initials and date "A H D 1718" gilt-stamped on front cover. FIRST EDITION "OF THE FIRST MANUAL OF ANALYTICAL AND METALLURGICAL CHEMISTRY" (DSB). Ercker's Beschreibung was the most authoritative 16th-century work on metallurgy and assaying after Agricola (lot 5). It "presents a systematic review of the methods of testing alloys and minerals of silver, gold, copper, antimony, mercury, bismuth, and lead; of obtaining and refining these metals, as well as of obtaining acids, salts, and other compounds ... Ercker described laboratory procedures and equipment, gave an account of preparing the cupel, of constructing furnaces, and of the assaying balance and the method of operating it. He used as his model Agricola's De re metallica , yet he was quite original and included only the procedures he himself had tested" (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 89; Hoover 280; Norman 707.
ERCKER, Lazarus (ca. 1530-1594). Beschreibung: Allerfrnemisten mineralischen Ertzt, unnd Berckwercks arten . Prague: Georg Schwartz, 1574. 2 o (288 x 185 mm). Title printed in red and black. Woodcut pictorial vignette on title, 33 large woodcut illustrations of mining, smelting and assaying operations, apparatus, furnaces, etc. (Lacking final blank Nn6, some minor browning.) 17th- or 18th-century German sheep over pasteboard, upper cover with central gilt wreath surrounding owner's initials "AHD" and date 1718, spine gilt (some early repairs to spine ends, rubbed, a few minor defects), half morocco folding case. Provenance : Jacobus Syrbius of Colditz near Meissen, pastor at Schnbrunn [Thuringer Wald], 17 September 1643 ("Jacobus Syrbius Colditio Misnicus pastor Schnbrunno Wiesenus", inscription on title page); initials and date "A H D 1718" gilt-stamped on front cover. FIRST EDITION "OF THE FIRST MANUAL OF ANALYTICAL AND METALLURGICAL CHEMISTRY" (DSB). Ercker's Beschreibung was the most authoritative 16th-century work on metallurgy and assaying after Agricola (lot 5). It "presents a systematic review of the methods of testing alloys and minerals of silver, gold, copper, antimony, mercury, bismuth, and lead; of obtaining and refining these metals, as well as of obtaining acids, salts, and other compounds ... Ercker described laboratory procedures and equipment, gave an account of preparing the cupel, of constructing furnaces, and of the assaying balance and the method of operating it. He used as his model Agricola's De re metallica , yet he was quite original and included only the procedures he himself had tested" (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 89; Hoover 280; Norman 707.
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