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Georgii Agricolae de re metallica libri XII : quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia deni[que] ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicis[que] appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint : eiusdem De animantibus subterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus, cum indicibus diuersis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555, author.
- Standardized Title:
- De re metallica
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Metallurgy--Early works to 1800.
- Metallurgy.
- Mineral industries--Early works to 1800.
- Mineral industries.
- Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.
- Zoology.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- [12], 538 [i.e. 502], [74] pages, [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 32 cm (fol.)
- Fingerprint:
- usi- s&e- s,ra gmfo (3) 1556 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Basileae : Apud Hieron. Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium, MDLVI [1556]
- Notes:
- Printers' names from colophon on leaf 2B6r, which reads: Basileae apud Hieron. Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium M.D. LVI. mense Martio.
- Signatures: [alpha]⁶ a-z⁶ A-2B⁶ (leaf [alpha]6 blank)..
- Numerous errors in pagination, including page 502 misnumbered 538.
- Woodcut printer's devices (title vignette and on leaf 2B6v), illustrations and initials.
- Errata on leaf 2B5v.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy bound with: Agricola, Georg. Georgii Agricolae De ortu & causis subterraneorum, lib. V. Basileae : In Officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium ..., MDLVIII [1558] -- Agricola, Georg. Georgii Agricolae De mensuris & ponderibus Romanorum atque Græcorum lib. V. Basileae : Apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, MDL [1550].
- Smith copy imperfect: leaf [alpha]1 (title leaf) wanting.
- Smith copy has exhibition label and typescript description of this copy laid in.
- Smith copy: leaf a2 torn across lower portion and mended on verso.
- Cited in:
- VD 16 A 933
- Duveen, D.I. Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica, page 4
- OCLC:
- 2381778
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