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| ERCKER, Lazarus
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| Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergwercks Arten
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| Frankfurt, J. Schmidt for S.Feyrabendt, 1580
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| Second edition.
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| Folio, ff. [4], 134, [4, the last blank], 41 plates.
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| Contemporary limp vellum stained green, new endpapers.
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Ercker's Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergwercks Arten (i.e., Description of leading ore processing and mining methods) is (along with
Biringuccio's Pyrotechnia and Agricola's De Re Metallica) one of the three seminal 16th century works on mining and metallurgy. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica "it may be regarded as the first manual of analytic and metallurgical chemistry". It is justly renowned for the many superb full page woodcut illustrations of laboratory and mining operations.
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