Lohneyss, Georg Engelhard von | Bericht von Bergwercken, third edition

Lohneyss, Georg Engelhard von

Bericht von Bergwercken. Leipzig: Christopff Gunther, 1690

Folio (317 x 202 mm). Engraved title, 16 engraved plates; a few small wormholes in lower margin of first few text leaves and plates, some light browning. Contemporary German vellum over boards; worn and soiled, losses at extremities, endpapers renewed.

Third edition of this celebrated work, first published in 1617 by the author himself. Lohneyss (1552-1625?), was inspector general of mines of Zellerfeld, Clausthal, and Andreasberg. After having a fight with a publisher, he set up his own press.

REFERENCES

Ferguson II, p. 42 (calling only for eleven plates). Not in Wellcome or Duveen.

PROVENANCE

Indistinct institutional inkstamp on title — Iron and Steel Institute, London (inkstamp on front free endpaper) — Sotheby’s London, 12 February 1994, lot 489