De Re Metallica Libri Xii Quibus Officia Instrumenta Machinae Ac Omnia Deniq Ue Ad Metallicam

by Georg Agricola

$85,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Basel: colophon: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Bischof, March 1556. First edition, the Harrison D. Horblit copy, of the “first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times” PMM . “The twelve books of Agricola’s treatise … embrace everything connected with Renaissance mining and metallurgical industries, including administration, the duties

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