Lot 1
Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica libri XII, contemporary vellum, Basel, Emanuel Konig, 1657.
Hammer Price: £2,600
Description
Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica libri XII, fourth Latin edition, woodcut title-vignette, 2 folding plates and c.270 illustrations attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and Blasius Weffring, many full-page, title torn at inner margin through corner of vignette (repaired) and a little frayed at edges, light browning and occasional offsetting, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, staining to lower cover, folio, [Wellcome II, p.18; cf.PMM 79, first edition], Basel, Emanuelis König, 1657.
⁂ "The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times" (PMM). First published in 1556 this became the standard work on the subject for several generations of miners. The extraordinary quality and number of woodcuts give a wonderful graphic account of industrial activity in the mid-sixteenth century, eg. the use of waterpower, furnaces etc., and include a very early depiction of a railway.
Description
Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica libri XII, fourth Latin edition, woodcut title-vignette, 2 folding plates and c.270 illustrations attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and Blasius Weffring, many full-page, title torn at inner margin through corner of vignette (repaired) and a little frayed at edges, light browning and occasional offsetting, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, staining to lower cover, folio, [Wellcome II, p.18; cf.PMM 79, first edition], Basel, Emanuelis König, 1657.
⁂ "The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times" (PMM). First published in 1556 this became the standard work on the subject for several generations of miners. The extraordinary quality and number of woodcuts give a wonderful graphic account of industrial activity in the mid-sixteenth century, eg. the use of waterpower, furnaces etc., and include a very early depiction of a railway.
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