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he rendered literally. It is a sad commentary on his countrymen that no 

 correct German translation exists. The ItaUan translation is by Michelangelo 

 Florio, and is by him dedicated to Elizabeth, Queen of England. The title 

 page of the first edition is reproduced later on, and the fuU titles of other 

 editions are given in the Appendix, together with the author's other works. 

 The following are the short titles of the various editions of De Re Metallica, 

 together with the name and place of the publisher : — 



Latin Editions. 

 De Re Metallica, Froben . . . . Basel FoUo 1556. 



„ „ ., Ludwig Konig ,, „ 1621. 



Emanuel Konig ,, ,, 1657. 



In addition to these, Leupold,^^ Schmid,^^ and others mention an octavo 

 edition, without illustrations, Schweinfurt, 1607. We have not been able to 

 find a copy of this edition, and are not certain of its existence. The same 

 catalogues also mention an octavo edition of De Re Metallica, Wittenberg, 

 1612 or 1614, with notes by Joanne Sigfrido ; but we beUeve this to be a 

 confusion with Agricola's subsidiary works, which were published at this 

 time and place, with such notes. 



German Editions. 



Vom Bergkwerck, Froben, Folio, 1557. 



Bergwerck Buck, Sigmundi Feyrabendt, Frankfort-on-Main, folio, 1580. 



„ ,, Ludwig Konig, Basel, folio, 1621. 



There are other editions than these, mentioned by bibUographers, but we 



have been unable to confirm them in any library. The most reliable 



of such bibliographies, that of John Ferguson, ^^ gives in addition to the 



above ; Bergwerkbuch, Basel, 1657, folio, and Schweinfurt, 1687, octavo. 



Italian Edition. 



L' Arte de Metalli, Froben, Basel, folio, 1563. 



Other Languages. 



So far as we know, De Re Metallica was never actually published in other 

 than Latin, German, and Italian. However, a portion of the accounts of 

 the firm of Froben were published in 1881^*, and therein is an entry under 

 March, 1560, of a sum to one Leodigaris Grymaldo for some other work, and 

 also for " correction of Agricola's De Re Metallica in French." This may 

 of course, be an error for the Italian edition, which appeared a Uttle later. 

 There is also mention^^ that a manuscript of De Re Metallica in Spanish was 



^ijacob Leupold, Prodromus Bibliothecae Metallicae, 1732, p. 11. 

 *^F. A. Schmid, Georg Agrikola's Bermannus, Freiberg, 1806, p. 34. 

 ^^Bibliotheca Chemica. Glasgow, 1906, p. 10. 



^*Rechnungsbuch der Froben und Episcopius Buchdrucker und Buchhandler zu Basel. 

 1557-1564, published by R. Wackernagle, Basel, 1881, p 20. 



^^Colecion del Sr Monoz t. 93, fol. 255 En la Acad, de In Hist. Madrid. 



