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AGRICOLA (GIORGIUS) Opera... de l'arte de metalli partita in xii. libri, Basel, Hieronymus Froben et Nicolaus Episcopius, [colophon: 1563]
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AGRICOLA (GIORGIUS)
Opera... de l'arte de metalli partita in xii. libri, first Italian edition, translated by Michelangelo Florio, title with woodcut printer's device, numerous woodcut illustrations (some full-page, 2 folding, one of which slightly cropped), colophon leaf and leaf with printer's device at end, mostly light waterstaining and browning, 5 or 6 repairs to margins/blank areas including title and colophon leaf, later vellum, spine with 5 raised bands and titled in manuscript [Hoover 27; cf. Duveen pp.4-5 and Ferguson I, pp.9-11; PMM 79 (first edition)], folio (308 x 208mm.), Basel, Hieronymus Froben et Nicolaus Episcopius, [colophon: 1563]
Footnotes
The first edition in Italian of the classic treatise on mining and metallurgy, "one of the first technological books of modern times" (PMM). The fine woodcuts were the work of Rudolph Manuel Deutsch of Basel, and the volume, dedicated to Elizabeth I, also includes Agricola's De animantibus subterraneis.