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SECOND EDITION OF A 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 (333x224 mm.). (12, last 2 blank), 1-502 (pp. 121-132 bound before p. 109), (74, lacks last blank leaf) pp. Title and last page with woodcut printer´s device, 2 woodcut plates, 267 woodcuts, partly full-page, in text by Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch and others, and 23 woodcut geometrical figures.
New (20th century) half vellum, slightly worn. Title with two large brownspots and some small holes after removed inscriptions. One small marginal burnhole, minor foxing.

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.

Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).

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6032

Datum:

2016-06-21