Guidi´s "De mineralibus tractatus..." 1625
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MINERALOGY. GUIDIUS, JOANNES SENIOR. De mineralibus tractatus in genere... libri quatuor... Cum duobus indicibus, unus titulorum, alter rerum notabilium... Venetiis (Venice, apud Thomam Ballionum) 1625.
Small 4:o (216x157 mm.). (40), 1-208 (i.e. 198, lacks last blank leaf) pp. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device. Woodcut initials and vignettes.
Contemporary vellum, somewhat worn, lacks ties, spine with manuscript title, lacks endpapers. Loose in upper hinge. Some dampstaining in lower outer corner in the beginning. Some minor foxing. Old signature on title.
Duveen p. 273, Ferguson I p. 354. First published in Venice 1618. The present copy is from the second edition.
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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Auktionsnummer:
6237
Date:
2015-12-15