(Mining and Metals) — Corpus Juris & Systema | Corpus juris & Systema rerum Metallicarum..., Frankfurt, 1698

(Mining and Metals) — Corpus Juris & Systema

Corpus juris & Systema rerum Metallicarum, oder Neu-verfasstes Berh-Buch, bestehund aus allerhand so alten ais neuern Collectaneis von Bergwercks-Sachen. Frankfurt am M.: Johann David Zunners, 1698

5 volumes in one, folio (333 x 198 mm). Double-page engraved plate with four subjects in part 1, 13 engraved illustrations in part 3, a few woodcut figures in text, woodcut headpieces and initials, title printed in red and black, double-column gothic type; title page cropped, browning to text, light spotting to plates in part 1 and 3, marginal repair to (R)2, final few gatherings creased and with marginal tears, lacking binder’s slip and possibly the Register to part 1 (called for by catchword on Q2v). Nineteenth-century vellum over pasteboard, manuscript title on spine label, edges sprinkled red; spine label flaked.

First collected edition of five texts related to mining and metals.

Including the following parts: 1) Christoph Entzel, Tractat von metallischen Dingen; 2) Johann Deucer, Metallicorum Corpus Juris oder Bergk-Recht; 3) Ursprung und Ordnungen der Bergwercke im Kõnigreich Bõheim; 4) Redens-Arten bei Berg und Schmeltz-Wercken; 5) Abraham von Schoenberg, Aussführliche Berg-Information.

PROVENANCE

Franciscus Richard, Frankfurt, 1713 (inscription on title) — Furstliche Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen (ink stamp on verso of title) — Christie’s New York, 11 November 1994, lot 25