Mug, Johann Joachim. Chymischer Glücks-Hafen/Or Grosse Chymeische Concordantz Und Collection. 4 Bl., 810 pp., 18 Bl. Register and printing errors. With some small woodcuts. 20,5 x 17 cm. Parchment band d. Zt. on wooden covers (somewhat stained and without flying intent, wood of the back cover broken). Frankfurt, J. G. Schiele, 1682. VD17 23:238915Z. Thinhead 448, 32.1. Bruning 2504. Ferguson 1, 86 Note – First edition of one of the last extensive publications of the famous camera list and scientist J. J. Becher (Speyer 1635-1682 London), who worked at the farms in Munich and Vienna. "His last years have been an unsteady wandering life in Holland and England ... The chemical tracts of these years no longer developed his natural theory; despite a strong emphasis on the quantitative moments, it remained essentially in the mix and solution of metals that of Aristotelian physics and the Renaissance philosophy, in which alchemy also had its place. Therefore, only the mechanistically reinterpreted elements, such as the representation of the dissolution processes from which G. E. Stahl's phlogiston theory grew up." (NDB 1, p. 689f.) In 1726, steel also obtained an edited new edition of the "Glücks-Hafen". – Some small cracks, partly slightly water-wrapped and dusted as well as with small worm canals in the margins. Title with year 1682 in ballpoint pen.