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SECOND EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK ON MINING. AGRICOLA, GEORGIUS. Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri 12. Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentissimè describuntur, sed etiam per effiges, suis locis insertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicisque appellationibus ita ab oculos ponuntur, vt clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem De animantibus subterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus: cum indicibus diuersis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus, atque omnibus nunc iterum ad archetypum diligenter restitutis & castigatis. Basilae (in Officina Frobeniana, per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium) 1561.

Folio (319x220 mm.). (12, last 2 blank), 1-502 (pp. 121-132 bound before p. 109), (72, lacks last blank leaf) pp. Title and last page with woodcut printer's device, 2 folding woodcut plates, 267 woodcuts, partly full-page, in text by Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch and others, and 23 woodcut geometrical figures.
Near contemporary full vellum, worn, spine damaged in upper and lower part, partly mended in lower part, defective spine label, blueish edges. Lacks last endpaper. Title damaged in lower part with loss of text, present in manuscript) and laid down on new paper. Minor foxing, at end some marginal dampstaining. Old catalogue cut mounted on first endpaper.

VD16, A 908, Ferguson I, p. 9. This is the second edition, the first edition published in Basel 1556.
"The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy", see PMM 70 for the 1556 ed. De re metallica remained the standard textbook on mining and metallurgy for over 200 years..
Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), Georg Pawer (today Bauer), better known by the Latin version of his name Georgius Agricola, is considered the founder of geology as a discipline. His work paved the way for further systematic study of the earth and of its rocks, minerals, and fossils. He made fundamental contributions to mining geology and metallurgy, mineralogy, structural geology, and paleontology.
From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.
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6026

Datum:

2015-12-15