Cesalpinos rare De metallicis libri tres 1602
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RARE SECOND EDITION. MINERALOGY. CESALPINO (CAESALPINO), ANDREA. De metallicis libri tres. Noribergae (Nuremberg, recusi, curante Conrado Agricola, ex officina Katharinae, Viduae Alexandri Theodorici) 1602.
Small 4:o (190x140 mm.). (16), 1-222, (2, last blank) pp. Title with woodcut printer's device.
Near contemporary brown mottled calf, worn, faded gilt spine in six compartments, damages at head and foot, red edges. Title with old library stamp. Some dampstaining, partly harder at end from pp. 190 in lower outer corner.
Duveen p. 112. First extremely rare edition published in 1596, our copy is from the rare second edition.
Andrea Cesalpini (1519-1603), Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist. His work De metallicis... was of great value for mineralogy and geology, displaying a correct understanding of fossils. As a botanist he is often quoted by Linnaeus. (Wikipedia).
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.
Auktionsnummer:
6232
Date:
2015-12-15