Wulfens, Xavier | Abhandlung vom kärnthnerischen Bleyspate, first edition

Wulfens, Xavier

Abhandlung vom kärnthnerischen Bleyspate. Wien, in der Johann Paul Kraußischen Buchhandlung, 1785

4to (283 x 210 mm). 21 hand-colored plates; text leaves a little spotted, plate 1 detached. Contemporary calf, spine gilt; a little worn and bumped.

First edition of Wulfen’s important monograph on the lead ores (Bleispate, i.e., lead spars) of Carinthia. In 1845 the lead molybdate mineral wulfenite was named in his honor by Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger.

Rare.

REFERENCES

Schuh 5097

PROVENANCE

Liechtenstein family (bookplate)