361
Alvaro Alonso Barba
Docimasie. 1767.
Estimation:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,100 Résultat:
€ 864 / $ 950 ( frais d'adjudication compris)
I. Palau 23637. - Sabin 3255 c. - Ferguson I, 70 Anm. - Vgl. Norman II, 269. - 5. Ausgabe des in mehreren Sprachen und mehreren Auflagen erschienenen Werkes. - Barbas Bericht El arte de les metales erschien erstmals 1640, "it was the first significant treatise on metals be written in Spanish, and the only 17th century work on its subject thas was largely original. He also provided an excellent description of his newly invented process of treating silver ore by amalgamation" (Norman). - II. Ferguson I, 384. - Kopp I, 83ff. - Schmieder S. 422ff. - Vgl. Duveen S. 287. - Erstmals 1667 in lat. Sprache erschienen, "One of the most important alchemical books, as it contains a (seemingly) very convincing account of a transmutation, which is still believed in by many at the present day" (Duveen). - Das Frontispiz zeigt eine aus den beschriebenen Experimenten entstandene Goldmünze. - Beide Werke tlw. etw. wasserrandig. Einband etw. fleckig.
361
Alvaro Alonso Barba
Docimasie. 1767.
Estimation:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,100 Résultat:
€ 864 / $ 950 ( frais d'adjudication compris)