Schlüter (Christoph Andreas) Gründlicher Unterricht von Hütte-Werken...nebst einem vollstäandigem Probier-Buch, first edition, Gothic letter, 58 engraved folding plates, woodcut initials, lacking frontispiece and a privilege f., some creasing to plates, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century half calf, gilt spine in compartments, split to head of spine, corners worn, rubbed, [Duveen p 534; Hoover 725], folio, Braunschweig, Friedrich Wilheim Meyer, 1738.

⁂ A wide-margined copy of the 'first edition of the most important mining book of the 18th century. Schluter was an official in British pay at Braunschweig and he dedicates his book to George II. He describes not only German mines, but also those of England, Scotland, Scandinavia and South-Eastern Europe'. (Duveen).