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AGRICOLA, GEORG. De re metallica. Nearly 270 woodcut text illustrations, many full page; 2 folding plates supplied in facsimile on laid paper. [12], 538 [i. e., 502], [74] pages, including blank [alpha]6. Folio, 310x200 mm, 17th-century calf with Wodhull arms added on front cover, top of spine chipped, rear joint and bottom of spine restored, front cover detached; partly scored inscription on title, front free endpaper loose, with upper corners excised. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius), 1556
first edition of the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy. "The De Re Metallica embraces everything connected with the mining industry and metallurgical processes, including administration, prospecting, the duties of officials and companies and the manufacture of glass, sulphur and alum . . . Some of the most important sections are those on mechanical engineering and the use of water-power, hauling, pumps, ventilation, blowing of furnaces, transport of ores, etc."--Printing and the Mind of Man 79. Hoover 17; Norman 20. From the library of the poet, translator, and bibliophile Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), presumably sold in the 1801 or 1803 sales of duplicates from his library, as his customary purchase notes have been excised from the front free endpaper (see De Ricci, page 81).
