AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De ortu & causis subterraneorum Lib. V - De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra Lib. IIII - De natura fossilium Lib. X - De veteribus & novis metallis Lib. II - Bermannus, sive De re metallica Dialogus - Interpretatio Germanica vocum rei metallicae. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, September 1546.
First edition of "the first handbook of modern systematic mineralogy" (Grolier/Horblit). This collection of six treatises on geology and metallurgy contains some of Agricola's most important works.
Folio (308 x 200 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title and at end, numerous woodcut initials, many historiated. (A small marginal dampstain at upper edge at center of volume, some pale browning.) Contemporary vellum with yapp-edges (some soiling, ties lacking, lacks rear free endpaper). Adams A-345; BM/STC German p. 8; Grolier/Horblit 2a; Hoover 14; Norman 19; Stillwell Science 565.
AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De ortu & causis subterraneorum Lib. V - De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra Lib. IIII - De natura fossilium Lib. X - De veteribus & novis metallis Lib. II - Bermannus, sive De re metallica Dialogus - Interpretatio Germanica vocum rei metallicae. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, September 1546.
First edition of "the first handbook of modern systematic mineralogy" (Grolier/Horblit). This collection of six treatises on geology and metallurgy contains some of Agricola's most important works.
Folio (308 x 200 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title and at end, numerous woodcut initials, many historiated. (A small marginal dampstain at upper edge at center of volume, some pale browning.) Contemporary vellum with yapp-edges (some soiling, ties lacking, lacks rear free endpaper). Adams A-345; BM/STC German p. 8; Grolier/Horblit 2a; Hoover 14; Norman 19; Stillwell Science 565.
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