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Born, Ignaz Edler von (1742-1791) Uber das Anquicken der Gold und Silberhaltigen . Vienna: Wappler, 1786. First edition, large quarto, engraved vignette on title, illustrated with three text engravings, and twenty-one folding engraved plates; bound in contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt, good. Born in Transylvania, Ignaz Elder von Born moved to Vienna, where he studied metals and minerals. In this work, he advances a new method for extracting metals by amalgamation, i.e., by combining the metal-containing ore with a salt and mercury, and then heating the mixture in shallow vessels to extract the target metal from within the ore.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18