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MONNET, Traité de l'exploitation des mines, 1773
MONNET, Antoine Grimoald.
Traité de l'exploitation des mines.
Paris, Didot l'ainé, 1773.
4to (255x198 mm), xx-348 pages and 24 folding plates. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Wormholes in the tail maring all along the volume, plates are less worn.
First edition.
Antoine Grimoald Monnet (1734-1817) is a French mineralogist, he was trained at the mining school of Freiberg, in Saxony, from where he brought back the material to compose his Treatise. In 1776 he became inspector general in the Royal Corps of Mines, for which he traveled to mines throughout France.
references: Pierre Fluck ["Monnet (1734-1817) : Un voyageur des Lumières dans le massif des Vosges'", Comité français d'histoire de la géologie, 2013 : "le Traité de l'exploitation des mines reprend la substance d'un corpus antérieurement élaboré par le Collège des mines de Freiberg, c'est le premier ouvrage du genre en français."].
Price : 600 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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