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DOLHOPFF, Georg Andreas.

(1630? – ?)

1. German, 1681.
Lapis Mineralis | Oder | Die höchste Artzney/ | Auß | Denen Metallenen und | Mineralien/ | Absonderlich dem Vitriolo. | Straßburg/ | In verlegung Georg Andreas Dolhopff. | Im Jahr M. DC. LXXXI.

4°: )o(6 A-G8 H2; 64l.; [12], 1-116 p.

Contents: [2 pgs], Title page, verso "Clanger Buccinæ."; [7 pgs], "Vorrede."-signed Georg Andreas Dolhopff.; [2 pgs], Laudatory poem.; [1 pg], "Joh. Rhenanus."; 1-116, Text.

Rare. Discussion of the stones, minerals and metals used principally in medical practice. It is compiled from numerous previous writers on those subjects. The work was also published by the author, whose name appears on the imprint and at the end of the foreword. It was one of several small works that the author prepared giving observations on animals and plants as well as minerals.

Bibliographical references: BL. Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, 1906: 1, 218-9 [describes work on animals]. Rosenthal, Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica, 1907: no. 507. VD17: 1:000140L.

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