186 - Technology - Mining - Zunner, Johann David (ed.). *Corpus iuris & systema rerum metallicarum*, or *A Newly Compiled Book on Mining*, consisting of all manner of ancient and modern collections of mining matters. 6 parts in 1 volume. With 4 copperplate engravings on 2 plates and 13 text engravings, as well as several woodcuts in the text. Frankfurt, Zunner, 1698. 32 x 20 cm. Later white half-leather binding with title on spine (slightly rubbed).

Technology - Mining - Zunner, Johann David (ed.). *Corpus iuris & systema rerum metallicarum*, or *A Newly Compiled Book on Mining*, consisting of all manner of ancient and modern collections of mining matters. 6 parts in 1 volume. With 4 copperplate engravings on 2 plates and 13 text engravings, as well as several woodcuts in the text. Frankfurt, Zunner, 1698. 32 x 20 cm. Later white half-leather binding with title on spine (slightly rubbed). First edition of this collection. - VD17 3:678497M - Koch 156, 101 - Hoover 233 - Without the copperplate title page. - Contains: I. C. Entzelt, Treatise on Metallic Matters. 4 leaves, 96 pp. - II. An Old Treatise on the Recognition of Fissures and Veins. (Institutiones metallicae. That is, True and Clear Instruction on Noble Mining). pp. 97–124. With 4 copper engravings on 2 plates. - III. F. Deucer, *Metallicorum Corpus juris*, or Mining Law. 12 leaves, 72 pp. - IV. Origin IV. Origin and Regulations of the Mines in Bohemia, Saxony, Austria, Brunswick and Lüneburg, Hohenstein, as well as the Royal Danish Mines in Norway. 14 leaves, 112 (correctly 312) pp., 6 leaves. With 13 text engravings. - V. A. Schönberg, Detailed Mining Information. 1 leaf, 73 pp. - VI. Ibid., Types of Contracts in Mining and Smelting Operations. 38 pp. — Title page creased and with missing sections (text loss); some leaves with minor wormholes (minimal loss of text); a few leaves with small tears or rips, partly caused by bookworms; throughout, discolored.