Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488
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Sale 2488 - Lot 171

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AGRICOLA, GEORG. De re metallica libri XII [and other works]. 2 woodcut plates, unseparated on single folding leaf; over 270 text illustrations. [14] (of [16]), 708, [90] pages; lacks blank last preliminary leaf. Folio, 319x200 mm, old calf, quite worn, rebacked; contents heavily browned with dampstaining in bottom portion throughout, title torn in lower outer corner with slight loss to vignette and imprint and mounted, repair in blank lower outer corner of next leaf. Bookplate of Leo S. Olschki; another bookplate removed. Basel: Emanuel Koenig, 1657
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only collected edition in latin, reprinting Agricola's 1556 De re metallica, the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy; his 1530 dialogue on mining; and 1546 collection of writings on geology, mineralogy, paleontology, subterranean life, etc.