Apr 28, 2005 - Sale 2040

Sale 2040 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 9,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
AGRICOLA, GEORGIUS. De re metallica. 3 folding woodcut strips facing diagram on page 96; folding woodcut plate of volvelle and 3 component parts facing page 100; 290 woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. [12], 502, [74] pages, including blank [alpha]6 and final colophon leaf. Folio, 330x220 mm, contemporary vellum, spine darkened, joints starting at top, lacks ties; minor worming in blank lower margin of approximately 30 leaves in middle of volume and in blank gutter of glossary and index leaves at end; 1/2 vellum folding case (spine darkened, chipped at top). Ownership inscription of Johannis vande Hoogh dated 1683. Basel: (in Officina Frobeniana per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, March) 1561
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Second Latin edition of the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy, following the 1556 original edition and 1557 German translation. Adams A350; Durling 53; Hoover 18.