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AGRICOLA, Georgius. De re metallica libri XII, quibus oflicia, instrumenta, machinae, ac 

 omnia denisque a<l metallicam spectantia describuntur. Eiusdem de animantibm subterraneig 

 liber. 5 leaves, l blaulc leaf, 538 pp., 37 leaves. With trco woodcut platen and about 250 

 full-page and other large woodcuts illustrating machinery and processen in Mining and 

 MetaHurgy; several fine wooilcut initials and printer^s device. Folio. Old vellum. Basel, 

 Froben, 1556. Swiss Frs. 425. ~ 



Ciiillet I, iio. KO Nn- 



ijlorlll: U38.IV,:{729. 

 Itaro (9«HSrHa) (Mli- 



tlon of this most beau- 



tiful work on minin^ 



and metullurgy, pio- 



fiisely ilhistiiitod by 



romnikablo -noodcntB, 



jirobiibly do8if;iiod by 



Rud. Manuel Deutsch. 



Tliis work is of groat 



iinportanco as tho flrst 



comprehenBive ono on 



miniiig and metalhirgy, 



whilo the numorous 



oxcollent woodoiits givo 



tlio flrst eshaustive 



pictorial iiccount of tho 



machin ery an d processes 



then in vogne. The 



author, whoae real name 



wa8 Bauor, was tho fbrst 



to givo a full account 



of the chemistry of 



metala. « This work is 

 I characterisod by a clear- 

 I ness of exproBsion, a 

 1 temperate conception of 



tlie operations descri- 



bod, and a distinct 



description botli of the 



apparatus employed and 



the processes followed- 



1 qnalities which atamp Agricola as a true iuvestigator » (prof. E. v. Meyer). — This woik is becoming 

 I rapidly rare and increasing in valae. Tlie spocial point of our copy consists in its flne condition, showing 

 I the woodcuts in excellent frosh impressions and not having the usua! browned paper, nearly all copies 



occnrring for sale being more or less brownod. Ouly several large but faint waterstains on margins 

 lof firat leaves and towards the end of the book. — 8ee reproduction ahove (greatly reduced). 



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