MARGGRAF, ANDREAS SIGISMUND.

Essais concernant la nouvelle Espece de Corps minéral connu sous le Nom de Platina del Pinto.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1756). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Memoires de Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", Annee 1757, tome XIII, pp. 31-60. Clean and fine.

First printing of a paper in which Marggraf investigates the newly found element platin, the Spaniards called it "platina del pinto", "the little silver". It was discovered in 1741 and "the most distinguished chemists in Europe soon became interested in the remarkable new metal. Among those who published papers on it may be mentioned: Scheffer, Bergman, and Berzelius in Sweden; Lewis in England: Marggraf in Germany....Lavoisier and Pelletier in France."(Weeks, Discovery of the Elements, p. 101.

Order-nr.: 42794