INTRODUCTION. xvii. 



he rendered literally. It is a sad commcntar}' on his countrymen that no 

 correct German translation exists. The Italian 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 full 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. 



,, ., ,, .. •■ •• ,. ,, 1561. 



„ ,, ,, Ludwig Konig ,, ,, 1621. 



„ ,, ,, Emanuel Konig ,, ,, 1657. 



In addition to these, Leupold,^i 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 believe 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, foho, 1580. 



,, Ludwig Konig, Basel, folio, 162 1. 



There are other editions than these, mentioned by bibliographers, 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 little later. 



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



"Jacob Leupold, Prodromus Bihliolhecae Metallicae, 1732, p. 11. 

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

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



'^Rechnnngsbuch der Froben und Episcopius Buchdrucker und Buchhdndler zu Basel, 

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



'^Colecion del Sr Monoz t. 93, fo!. 255 En la Acad, de la Hist. Madrid. 



