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CANCRIN, Franz Ludwig von. Kurzer Entwurf der Grubenbaukunst. Engraved vignette on general title & 57 folding engraved plates. 6 p.l., 244, [16] pp. 8vo, cont. boards covered with blue-green paper (some worming in gutter, occasional unimportant dampstaining). Frankfurt am Main: Andrea, 1774.

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 V of the above-mentioned Erste Gründe der Berg und Salzwerkskunde. This is a richly illustrated work on methods of digging and constructing mines. The plates depict the different kinds of shafts which could be established, the tools used to dig the shafts and remove metals and their ores, methods of securing the shafts, etc.

Good copy, lacking the sectional title. Light dampstaining. From the library of His Serene Highness Prince Fürstenberg at Donaueschingen.

Poggendorff, I, 370.

1500.0000