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De re metallica, hoc est, de origine, uarietate, & natura corporum metallicorum, lapidum, gemmarum, atq; aliarum, quae ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad medicinae usum deseruientium, libri III / autore Christophoro Encelio ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Entzelt, Christoph, 1517-1583.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
- Metals--Early works to 1800.
- Metals.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 271 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- De re metallica.
- Place of Publication:
- Franc. : Apud Chr. Egenolphum, [1551]
- Notes:
- Signatures: [alpha]⁸ A-E⁸ F⁸ (F6+chi1, F8+chi1) G⁸ (G1+chi1) H-R⁸.
- Prefatory letter (leaf [alpha]2) from Melanchthon to Egenolphus, requesting him to publish the work, dated 19 Aug. 1551.
- Three folded tables (each printed on one side of interpolated double leaf) include catchwords and are numbered as pages 93, 98 and 102; leaves H4 verso and H5 recto have text running across the two pages and are numbered as page 123.
- Last leaf blank.
- Cited in:
- Ferguson I, 240
- Duveen p. 192
- OCLC:
- 19375410
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