Swedenborg, De ferro 1734
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SWEDENBORG DE FERRO 1734. SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL. Emanuelis Swedenborgii sacrae regiae majestatis regnique Sveciae Collegii Metallici assessoris Regnum subterraneum sive minerale de ferro deque modis liquationum ferri per Europam passim in usum receptis: Deque conversione ferri crudi in chalybem: De vena ferri et probatione ejus: Pariter de chymicis praeparatis et cum ferro et victriolo ejus factis experimentis &c. &c. Cum figuris aeneis. Dresden and Leipzig, Friedrich Hekelius, 1734.
Folio. 36 x 23 cm. (10), 164, (1, 1 blank), 165-252, (1, 1 blank), 253-254, 257-296, (1, 1 blank), 297-298. 301-386 pp. With 18 engraved plates, of which 1 folding, and large folding engraved map. Worn contemporary red-dyed vellum spine with marbled boards. Minor foxing, most plates browned. Small wormholes with partial loss of print in title. Rusty streak on p. 223 and adjacent plate (numbered XXV). Lacks 2 part- or halftitles as well as 8 plates.
Second part of Swedenborg´s 3-volume work Opera philosophica et mineralia. The folding map concerns iron- and copper mines in Siberia. The plates in this copy ennumbered I/II, IV/V, VI, XI, XII, XIII, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII and XXXVI.
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458104
Datum:
2017-05-02