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Johann Gottlob LEHMANN

L'art des mines, avec un traité des exhalaisons minerales ou moufettes & plusieurs mémoires sur différens sujets d'histoire naturelle. Essai d'une histoire naturelle des couches de la terre, avec des considérations physiques sur les causes des tremblemens de terre & de leur propagation

Chez Thomas Herissant, à Paris 1759, In-12 (10x17,2cm), (4) xvj, 419pp. et xvj, 402pp. (1) et xxvj (1) 498pp. (4), 3 volumes reliés.

Rare first edition, illustrated with 4 pictures in the first volume and 6, including 5 folded pictures, in the third. Translated from German with the translators notes. Half title common to the 3 volumes: Treatises on physics, natural history, mineralogy and metallurgy.
Bound in contemporary, full, granite-patterned brown sheep. Spine in decorated compartments. Title pieces in red morocco, gilt volume labels at the bottom. Signs of rubbing, especially on the joints. Slight accident to the lower joint at the bottom of volume 3, narrow split to the upper joint at the top of volume 1 of 0.5cm. Very pale and scattered foxing. Beautiful copy.
Considered the father of modern geology and the founder of stratigraphy (the study of the earth's strata), Lehmann (1719-1767) was a mineralogist and geologist renowned for his work. From 1750, his essay on the formation of metals allowed him to be commissioned by the Prussian Academy of Sciences for a study of the mines throughout Prussia. Lehmann drew his work from L'art des mines, whose many terms entered geological literature. In 1767, he was invited by the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences where he became Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Imperial Science Museum. He remains famous for his precise description of the earth's various layers of stratified rock.

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