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Three works on metallurgy and chemistry in one
FACHS, Modestin.Nunmehro zum neundten mahl herausgegebenes Probier-Büchlein. Darinnen gründlicher Bericht vermeldet wird wie man alle Metall und derselben zugehörende Metallische Ertzte und Getöchte ein jedes auff seine Eigenschafft und Metall recht probiren soll; dessgleichen Lehr und Unterricht der rechten Probier-Ofen, Gewichten, Capellen und Flüssen.     Leipzig, Johann Grosse, 1689. 4 parts. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Title printed in red and black, folding engraved plate with cross-section of an oven. (20), 185, (9); 51, (1); 173 (1); 69, (7), (2) blank pp. With: HORN, Johann Bernhard. & David KELLNER. Synopsis Metallurgica oder kurze jedoch deutliche Anleitung zu der höchts nütz und ergätzlichen edlen Probier-Kunst verfasset in XV. Tabellen..... Auf ersuchen des autoris fleissigt durchsehen... zum Druck befordert. Durch D. David Kellnern... (No place,Jena or Frankfurt?), Johann Christoph Weidner, 1690. Title printed in red and black, with 15 tables (one folding). 22, 104, (2) pp. (3). KELLNER, David. Wohlangerichtetes aerarium chymicum antiquo- novum, oder alter neue und reichlichst vermehrte oder Chymische Schatzkammer in welcher nicht allein L. Martini Schmuckens sodenr auch vieler andern vornehemen Chymicorum bey 200. herrliche sehr curieuse secreta chymica, meinst (!) auff Verbesserung derer Metallen theils aber zugleich auch auff gute Medicinen gerichtet... Aus vielen Manuscriptis mit sonderbahrem Fleiss zusammen getragen... und zum offentlichen Druck befoerdert durch D. David Kellner. 2 parts. Leipzig, printed by Koberstein for Joh. Herbord Kloss, 1702. Title printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations in text. (22), 389 (=386); (30) pp. Ad 1: Enlarged edition of a treatise on metallurgy a.o. meant for gold- and silversmiths, written by the master of the mint for the prince of Anhalt at Leipzig, Modestin Fachs. He was responsible for assaying. The text is mainly on gold and silver but the second part concerns the managerial aspects of the mint. The third part a.o. gives lists of alchemist signs, values of several currencies and additional infomation on gold and silver, other metals and alloys. The first edition was published at Leipzig in 1595. Ad 2: First and only edition of an introduction to metallurgy and mining. ''Ubersichtliche und selbstständige Anleitung zur Probirkunst, von den alten Probierbüchlein deutlich unterschieden'' (Darmstädter, p. 197). Ad 3: First and only edition of a work with 153 aphorisms concerning metallurgy and alchemy, also focussing on the medicinal qualities of metals, written by the court physician at Stollberg, David Kellner. He studied medicine at Helmstedt and graduated there in 1670, writing two dissertations on surgical practises. He pursued chemistry and metallurgy, opposing alchemist practises, and wrote a number of books on these subjects. Fine, partly unopened, copies.
Ad 1: Ferchl 149; VD17 12:644313W; Ferguson I, 261; not in Hoover. Ad 2: VD17 39:117831P; Ferguson I, 417; Ferchl 249f; Brüning 2660; Darmstädter, Probirbüchlein 197; not in Hoover nor Schuh. Ad 3: Ferguson I, 456; Bolton 572 (only the appendix); cf. Schuh, Mineralogy, 1620 (for the author); DSB VII, 284; Wellcome II, 383; Ferchl 269; VD17 3:601877S (1686 ed.).
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