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Mineralogy - Henckel, Johann Friedrich. Flora Saturnizans, Die Verwandschafft des Pflanzen mit dem Mineral-Reich, nach der Natural-Historie und Chymie ..., Nebst einem Anhang vom Kali Geniculato Germanorum oder Gegliederten Saltz-Kraut, insonderheit von einer hieraus neu-erfundenen dem allererschönsten Ultramarin gleichenden Blauen Farbe. With engraved frontispiece by J. B. Brühl and 9 copper plates. Leipzig, J. Chr. Martini, 1722. 5 pp., 671 p., 8 pp. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary parchment binding, covered with contemporary marbled paper, with spine label (rubbed, paper with cover defects). First edition. - Ferchl 225 - Gmelin II 590 i - Poggendorff I 1065 - Pritzel 3955 - Hoover 399 - not in Duveen, Ferguson and Nissen. - Johann Friedrich Henckel (1679-1744) was a Saxon mining councillor in Freiberg, "also worked on the alkali content of plants, believed that the alkalis in the plants were not only formed during cremation, already knew the soda-ultramarine at that time, considered it to be Berlin blue." (Ferchl). - The beautiful frontispiece with allegorical depiction of a garden and a tunnel with miners, the plates show fossils and plants. - Endpapers and frontispiece with small hole, title with backing at lower corner. Frontispiece and title loosened, the following dedication leaf somewhat protruding and edged, browned. VAT: *
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Mineralogy - Henckel, Johann Friedrich. Flora Saturnizans, Die Verwandschafft des Pflanzen mit dem Mineral-Reich, nach der Natural-Historie und Chymie ..., Nebst einem Anhang vom Kali Geniculato Germanorum oder Gegliederten Saltz-Kraut, insonderheit von einer hieraus neu-erfundenen dem allererschönsten Ultramarin gleichenden Blauen Farbe. With engraved frontispiece by J. B. Brühl and 9 copper plates. Leipzig, J. Chr. Martini, 1722. 5 pp., 671 p., 8 pp. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary parchment binding, covered with contemporary marbled paper, with spine label (rubbed, paper with cover defects). First edition. - Ferchl 225 - Gmelin II 590 i - Poggendorff I 1065 - Pritzel 3955 - Hoover 399 - not in Duveen, Ferguson and Nissen. - Johann Friedrich Henckel (1679-1744) was a Saxon mining councillor in Freiberg, "also worked on the alkali content of plants, believed that the alkalis in the plants were not only formed during cremation, already knew the soda-ultramarine at that time, considered it to be Berlin blue." (Ferchl). - The beautiful frontispiece with allegorical depiction of a garden and a tunnel with miners, the plates show fossils and plants. - Endpapers and frontispiece with small hole, title with backing at lower corner. Frontispiece and title loosened, the following dedication leaf somewhat protruding and edged, browned. VAT: *
