Abrégé du traité de l'exploitation des mines, extrait de la traduction de l'allemand faite par M. Monnet.; Dictionnaire de minérologie et métallurgie; Traité de la préparation des mines ou disposition des mines pour la fonte; Traité des mines; Moments perdus; Differents secrets merveilleux et naturels

Abstract:

French miscellany containing a translation from German of a treatise on mining, a dictionary of mineralogy and metallurgy, a table of currency exchange, medical remedies, poetry and songs (including work of Conte de Grécourt). The unnamed compiler was a French Protestant refugee, cf. the preface.

Creator:

Monnet, Antoine Grimoald, 1734-1817.

Timespan:

Germany.

Date:

1780

Identifier:

9915809913503681; (OCoLC)ocn155964465; (OCoLC)155964465; (CStRLIN)PAUR95-A491; (PU)1580991-penndb-Voyager

Language:

French; German

Provenance:

Acquired, 1970.

Publisher:

[Duppenweiler], 1780.

Subject:

Metallurgy.; French poetry -- 18th century.; Mining engineering -- Germany -- Early works to 1800.; Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800.; French poetry.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Chemistry -- History.; Chemistry.; History.; Mining engineering.; Codices.; Poems.; Recipes.; Manuscripts, European.; Manuscripts, French.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

248 leaves : paper, illustrations; 144 x 100 (111 x 65) mm bound to 148 x 103 mm

Personal Name:

Cancrin, Franz Ludwig von, 1738-1812.; Grécourt, 1683-1743.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Zacour-Hirsch tentatively identify the author of Abrégé du traité de l'exploitation des mines as Franz Ludwig von Cancrin, author of Exposition des mines, ou, description de la nature et de la qualite des mines : à laquelle on à joint des notices sur plusiers mines d'Allemagne & de France, & une dissertation pratique sur le traitement des mines de cuivre, traduite de l'Allemand, de M. Cancrinus par M. Monnet, 1772.; Origin: Written in Duppenweiler, 1780 (p. i).; Title from title page (p. i).; Foliation: Paper, ii + 248 + ii; [viii], 1-124, [vi], 1-329, [xxvii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Ms. codex.; Decoration: 3 folded pen and ink drawings illustrating mining. Vignettes at headings and chapter endings throughout.; Binding: Contemporary calf.; French.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 521