[FACSIMILE] Xavier Wulfen's Treatise on Carinthian Lead Spars

Tucson: Mineralogical Record, 1997. Limited Edition. No. 33 of 150 copies. Quarto (28cm). Bound in faux black leather, backed in maroon calf, titled in gilt on black spine label; grey endpapers; xliv, [2], [2], 150, [2], 108, [10], 35, [3], 20, [2]pp; 21 color plates. A fresh copy, with very minor dirt to lower edge of text block at front corner, erased pencil mark to flyleaf, else Fine.

Facsimile of Wulfen's Abhandlung vom Kärtner Bleispate (Vienna: 1785), a description of minerals found at Bleiburg (in Carinthia, Austria) that is one of the "finest examples of hand-colored mineral illustration." Among the minerals is the popular and eponymous wulfenite. This volume also includes a fascimile of the 1791 Latin translation of Wulfen's book, an English translation, a facsimile of an 1810 biography of Wulfen, a 1986 article on the Bleiburg site, and an introduction by Wilson.