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Basileae Helvet: Ludovici Regis. , 1621.. A fine and handsome example with decoratively blind tooled contemporary boards. Text andplates are clean and crisp. A superb handsome copy.. Edition: Third Latin edition. Text in Latin., Binding: contemporary blind tooled calf board, rebacked expertly saving the original spine, spine with four raised bands, title in gilt on dark brown calf label on spine, spine with decorative gilt motifs, upper and lower board with rules and blind decorative tooling., Notes: De Re Metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals [Minerals]) is a book cataloguing the state ofthe art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, first published a year posthumously in 1556 due to a delay in preparing woodcuts for the text. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after its publication. It was also an important chemistry text for the period and is significant in the history of… Read More

Basil: Ludovici Regis, 1621. Third Latin Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a serviceable binding. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in library buckram; irregularly paginated: [10], 502, [58] pages. Illustrated with 270 woodcuts, many full and half page, some signed with the monogram "RMD," and generally attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (fl.1525-1572) or, less commonly, Blasius Weffring. Previously published in 1556 and 1561, this edition seems scarcer than either of the previous. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 79: "The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times." Herbert Hoover, who first translated this book into English, described this title in his autobiography as "the first important attempt to assemble systematically in print the world-knowledge on mining, metallurgy, and industrial chemistry. It was the great textbook of those industries for two centuries and had dominated thought and practice all that time. In many mining regions… Read More

Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, 1556. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. March 1556. Folio (332 x 223 mm). [10], [2: blank], 538 [i.e. 502], [74] pp. With woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf verso, large woodcut initials, 2 folding woodcut plates bound after i2 (the first folded in at fore-margin), 273 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (many full page); bound without blank leaf alpha6. Signatures: [alpha]6, a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-Bb6 (-alpha6). Contemporary French calfskin, spine with 6 raised bands and tooled with small gilt flourons in compartments, boards with blind fillets and gilt fleurons including 4 smaller at corners and a large in the center; the spine expertly rebacked preserving most of the original compartment leather, corners restored, all edges gilt, original endpapers preserved (leather over boards spotted, wear to extremities, upper board slightly bowed, endpapers soiled and spotted, lower joint split c. 5 cm at head).… Read More