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CANCRIN, Franz Ludwig von. Anleitung zur Scheide oder Aufbereitungskunst der Mineralien. Engraved vignette on general title & 21 folding engraved plates. 5 p.l., 158, [8] pp. 8vo, cont. boards covered with blue-green paper (light foxing). Frankfurt am Main: Andrea, 1782.

First edition. Cancrin (1738-1812), was an engineer and high government official, both in Germany and in Russia where he was recruited by Catherine II to manage the Staraya Russa saltworks. "Despite the press of his civil offices, Cancrin found time (1773-1791) to write an encyclopedic work in twenty-one volumes that covered all aspects of the mining of metals and salt -- including mineralogy, assaying, mathematics, and mechanics. This work brought him a European reputation."D.S.B., III, pp. 41-42.

The present work is Part VIII of the above-mentioned Erste Gründe der Berg und Salzwerkskunde and is a complete work on the extraction of metals from ore.

Fine copy. From the library of His Serene Highness Prince Fürstenberg at Donaueschingen.

Poggendorff, I, 370.

1250.0000