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Buchbeschreibung: Hieronimo Frobenio Episcopio., 1563. Rilegato. Buchzustand: molto buono. prima edizione. Tradotti in lingua toscana de Michelangelo Florio. In-folio, pergamena molle coeva. (xii), 542, (10) pp., 1 tavola ripiegata f.t. Insegna tipografica nel frontespizio e nell' ultima carta, capilettera ornati e 292 belle illustrazioni disegnate da H.R.M. Deutsch (1525-1571) e incise in legno da Z. Specklin (c. 1530-1576), stampate con le matrici originali. Bell' esemplare della prima traduzione italiana. Agricola studiò attentamente i procedimenti minerari e scrisse questo libro che venne pubblicato postumo in latino (De re metallica) nel 1556. Nel testo riepilogò tutto il sapere pratico che aveva ricevuto dai minatori tedeschi. Il libro è scritto con chiarezza e presenta eccellenti illustrazioni di macchine per l' estrazione mineraria. Fu la prima opera importante sui minerali che fosse mai stata scritta, e generalmente si considera alla base della scienza della mineralogia. "Agricola's De re metallica is one of the great monuments of technology by reason of the comprehensiveness of its text and the detail and intelligibility of his numerous illustrations.For two centuries De re metallica remained the chief texbook on mining and metallurgy." (Singer, History of technology, III, pp. 27-28; 324-34). "The magnificent woodcut illustrations. are a feature of this great work which remained unexcelled for generations. It marks the beginning of scientific method through observations as distinct from the purely scholastic approach of the Middle Ages." (Annan, Historic books on mining, p. 6 (4). "Agricola was the first author to compile a book in which technical descriptions and drawings were of sufficent accuracy and detail to enable machines to be made fromthe information supplied. Workshop, tools, machines and things relating to metals are excellenttly described and illustrated. He described multi-stage reciprocating mine-pumps which were driven by water-wheels; and horse-driven pumps, with rack-gears and chains, arranged in series to drain minesv with over 200 feet total lift. His use of anti-friction rollers for bearing is interesting" (Davison, Historic books on machines, 7). D.S.B., I, pp. 75-76. Warld & Carozzi, Geology emerging, 30 (ed.orig.). Kuhner & Rizzo, The Hoover collection of mining and metallurgy, 27. Dibner, Heralds of science, 88 (ed.orig.). Horblit, One hundred books famous in science, 2b (id.). Printing and the mind of man, 79 (id.). Norman library of science and medicine, 20 (id.). Ferguson, Bibliotheca chemica, I, p. 9. Zittel, History of geology and paleontology, p. 150. Darmstaedter, Georg Agricola, pp. 89-90. Dibner, Agricola on metals, passim. Il primo trattato completo sulle miniere e la matallurgia. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 000122

Buchbeschreibung: Iacobus Gesnerus, Zurich, Switzerland, 1565. Hardcover. Buchzustand: Good condition. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Published 1565-1566. Detached title page is worn, soiled, creased and has small chips. Minor soiling and creasing to text of Part 1. Minor worming to Part 7. Worming to Part 8, which lacks the final 7 leaves (14 pages). Front board lacking, rear board detached, spine defective. Small 8vo (6.26 inches/159mm). Some early marginalia in a tiny neat hand scattered throughout the text and margins. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 009577

Buchbeschreibung: Hieronymus Froben, Basileae., 1561. Buchzustand: Condizione esemplare: Marca (J55) sul front. e in fine. Splendidamente illustrato in silografia da 2 tavole fuori testo e da 273 grandi figure nel testo, vari capilettera istoriati, emblema di Froben sul titolo e in fine. Bella legatura moderna in pieno vitello biondo, dorso a nervi con titolo e fregio in oro negli scomparti, tagli bruni. Seconda edizione latina (prima 1556 del medesimo Froben) della monografia fondamentale sulla scienza dei metalli. Le magnifiche incisioni, a piena o mezza pagina, sono assegnate agli artisti Hans Rudolf M.Deutsch e Blasius Weffring; illustrano ogni aspetto della metallurgia e mineralogia, particolari di macchine e atrezzi, scene di lavorazione, tecnologie specifiche, etc. Ogni aspetto del lavoro sotterraneo e di officina, e di applicazione dei macchinari inventati, e’ accuratamente descritto nei dodici capitoli che compongono l’opera. ("De re metallica remained the standard text-book on mining and metallurgy for over two-hundred years" - Norman catalogue). Printing and the mind of man, 79. Adams A250. Hoover 18. Dibner 88. Horblit 2B. Prima edizione. Formato: [12], 502, [74] p., [2] c. di tav., 2°, bross. Buono, ordinari segni d’uso e del tempo, più evidenti al dorso e alle carte di sguardia. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 36979

Buchbeschreibung: Basilea, H. Froben, Basilea, H. Froben, 1563. In-folio (cm. 33) cc. nn. 6, pp. 542, cc. nn. 5, 2 tavv. rip. f.t. e 273 figg. in xil. n.t., marca tip. al fs. ed in fine. Mz. perg. '700, tit. su tass. al dso. Lievi arrossature, insignificanti segni d’uso, rinforzato un margine per l’ossidazione di 6 parole manoscritte coeve. Ottimo es. ad ampi margini. Rarissima prima edizione in italiano della prima monografia esclusivamente dedicata ai metalli e all'arte mineraria, importantissima per la storia della tecnica. Sono descritte e illustrate l'estrazione, la trasformazione e la commercializzazione delle risorse minerarie. Le illustrazioni, opera di H.R.M. Deutsch, rendono l'opera unica nel suo genere e sono un eccezionale documento sul livello tecnologico dell'epoca. P.M.M., 79 la prima edizione. Ferguson, I, 10. Parenti, p. 231. Adams, A/350. Olschki, 5934. Sotheran, I, 37. Thorndike, Vol. V - VI. ID: 31_9. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 31_9

Buchbeschreibung: Jeronymus Froben u. Nicl. Bischoff, Basel, 1557. Hardcover. Buchzustand: Very Good. First printing. First printing, 1557. Large quarto (13.5 x 9 inches; 34 x 22.5 cm), original varnished and stained oak boards with remains of original brass clasps, somewhat later plain brown leather spine, pp. (8), ccccxci, (13), illustrated throughout with woodcuts, some of which are full page, including folding plate facing p. cv. A good to very good copy, light wear and rubbing to what is probably 18th C. leather spine, book is ex-library with library bookplate on pastedown (the endpapers are late 19th C. plain tanned paper), a couple faint ink stamps on title page, ink number notation to introductory page after title, no other library marks. Title page has been repaired with extensive old paper patching to its verso and has been affixed to the next page with old white cloth book tape at its gutter. First few pages with tanning and spottiness, majority of text very good and clean, but top third of foredge of text block shows darkening from old dampstain, and the upper outer margins of most pages show very faint tan tidemark going in at most one inch of that old dampstain, not very noticable, also, some minor occasional foxing; there is also some dampstain tan tidemarks, somewhat more extensive, to the last few leaves, mainly the index and colophon pages, not the text. Minor patching to upper inner margin of colophon page. The woodcuts are all free of dampstaining and are bright and well inked. A handsome copy of this classic, the first German language edition of De Re Metallica, which was published in Latin the year before in 1556. With the same woodcuts. Agricola's book was the greatest 16th C. contribution to the science of mining, mineralogy, extractive technologies, and was a major contribution to the sciences of geology and metallurgy. It was translated into English by future president Hebert Hoover in 1912. Georgius Agricola (birth name Georg Pawer) 1494- 1555 was a German scientist known as the Father of Mineralogy. Auction records establish a firm track record for this book, but the last at auction was Sotheby's 2001 for a copy with some stamps and worming and other problems, $12,000. The 1556 Latin edition auctions for $20-30K in recent years for very good copies. Buchnummer des Verkäufers C00009703

Buchbeschreibung: Basileae Helvet Sumptibus Itemque Typis Chalcographicis Ludovici Regis 1621, 1621. Third Latin Edition of this monumental work, Òthe first treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times.Ó Illustrated profusely with a very handsome pictorially engraved title-page and 273 full or partial page engravings by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (Blasius Weffring). The final 58 pages contain a dictionary of metallurgy in Latin, Greek and German. Folio (mm. 312 x 205), handsomely bound in contemporary soft vellum, the spine with calligraphic titling in an early hand. (10), 538, (58), 4, (1) pp. A fine and handsome copy, clean and well preserved with large margins. The binding with some very old staining to one side, but not affecting the quality of the vellum or the strength or quality of the book. ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. (This was) Òthe 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 and camps, including the Spanish South America it was chained to the church altar and translated by the priest to the miners between religious services.Ó H. Hoover This great and Ôsystematic treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy, is illustrated with many fine and interesting woodcuts which illustrate every conceivable process to extract ores from the ground and metal from the ore, and much more besides. Agricola described and illustrated how ore veins occur in and on the ground, making the work an early contribution to the developing science of geology. He described prospecting for ore veins and surveying in great detail, as well as washing the ores to collect the heavier valuable minerals, such as gold and tin. He acknowledged his debt to ancient authors, such as Pliny the Elder and Theophrastus. The work is also important for showing the many water mills used in mining, such as the machine for lifting men and material into and out of a mine shaft. Water mills found innumerable applications, especially in crushing ores to release the fine particles of gold and other heavy minerals, as well as working giant bellows to force air into the confined spaces of underground workings. DE RE METALLICA contains in an appendix, the German equivalents for the technical terms used in the Latin text. It long remained a standard work, and marks its author as one of the most accomplished chemists of his time. Believing the black rock of the Schlossberg at Stolpen to be the same as Pliny the Elder's basalt, he applied this name to it, and thus originated a petrological term which has been permanently incorporated in the vocabulary of science. Until that time, Pliny's work Historia Naturalis was the main source of information on metals and mining techniques, and Agricola made numerous references to the Roman encyclopedia. He described many mining methods which are now redundant, such as fire-setting, which involved building fires against hard rock faces. The hot rock was quenched with water, and the thermal shock weakened it enough for easy removal. It was very dangerous when used in underground galleries for the toxic gases given off by fires, and was made obsolete by explosives. DE RE METALLICA is considered a classic document of Renaissance metallurgy, unsurpassed for two centuries. In 1912, the Mining Magazine (London) published an English translation which was made by Herbert Hoover, a significant American mining engineer, and later, President of the United States, along with his wife Lou Henry Hoover. This translation was published in book form in a fine folio edition bound in white vellum. Added to the work for the first time was a biographical introduction, annotations, and appendices on the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy and mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century.Õ. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 23643

Buchbeschreibung: Leipzig Valentinus Papa 1546., 1546. Rare Leipzig printing of Agricola’s first book devoted to mining, a pioneer delineation of mining and metallurgy (DSB), and of particular interest for the study of occupational diseases. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 2707

Buchbeschreibung: Hard cover. Two woodcut plates (one folding, both slightly shaved at the fore-edge, as often) & about 270 splendid woodcuts (many full-page) in the text. Froben’s woodcut device on title & on verso of final leaf. 6 p.l. (final leaf a blank), 502 pp., [37] leaves. Folio, an attractive modern binding using an old antiphonal leaf (several small wormholes in the first and last two leaves, first gathering faintly dampstained, a few gatherings light browned). Basel: Froben, 1561. Second Latin edition, corrected, of "the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times The De Re Metallica embraces everything connected with the mining industry and metallurgical processes, including administration, prospecting, the duties of officials and companies and the manufacture of glass, sulphur and alum. The magnificent series of two hundred and seventy-three large woodcut illustrations by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch add to its value. Some of the most important sections are those on mechanical engineering and the use of water-power, hauling, pumps, ventilation, blowing of furnaces, transport of ores, etc., showing a very elaborate technique"(Printing & the Mind of Man). This second edition is almost a page-for-page reprint of the first, but is typographically superior and is printed on heavier paper. The woodcuts are the same as those in the first edition. Apart from the defects mentioned, an excellent copy. ? D.S.B., I, pp. 77–79. Hoover 18. Neville I, p. 17. See Printing & the Mind of Man 79; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 88; Horblit 2b; and Sparrow, Milestones of Science, p. 8 for the first edition of 1556. Buchnummer des Verkäufers JHABES2160

Buchbeschreibung: In Officina Frobeniana., Basel, 1558. Vellum. Buchzustand: Very Good. Second edition. The second edition (the first is 1546) of what has been called "the first handbook of modern systematic mineralogy" (see Horblitt. ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FAMOUS IN SCIENCE, #2A). The second edition corrects the errors found in the first edition. MILESTONES OF SCIENCE, #3. Adams A346. Folio. (8),470,(42)pp. Index. With the blank leaf after page 470. Large Froben woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf. One full page woodcut illustration in the text. Large woodcut initials. Early vellum, spine lettered by hand, hinges a bit rubbed. A.e.g. Some occasional light soiling of text. Bookplate of R. G. Nicolaus. A wide margined copy. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 6797

Buchbeschreibung: Basel, Froben, 1558., 1558. Folio. (8), 470, (22) pp. With a full-page woodcut in the text. 17th-c. brown morocco with gilt-stamped cover fillets and central ornaments, label to gilt spine. Rare edition of Agricola's collected shorter texts on geology, mineralogy, mining, astrology, alchemy, etc., first published in 1548, "the first handbook of modern systematic mineralogy" (Horblit), with a fine full-page woodcut showing thermal baths, and what seems to be the first Latin-German dictionary of mining terms. - Slightly waterstained throughout in the upper half; attractive binding imperceptibly restored at lower spine-end. Bookplate of "M. Boulton Library Soho" on front pastedown; title page with notes of ownership by "Cha. Brown" and "J. Amson MD" (both probably dating from the 17th c.). VD 16, A 921. Ferguson I, 9. Hoover 15. Darmstaedter, Agricola 89. Cf. Freilich 11 (1st ed.) and Stillwell (Science) IV, 562-565. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 14031

Buchbeschreibung: Basileae Helvet. : Sumptibus itemque typis Ludovici Regis, 1621. Hardcover. Buchzustand: Very Good +. 1621 edition of De Re Metallica. Tall 4to, 12.5 x 8.25 inches (32 x 21 cm). Pagination: [10], 538 [i.e. 502], [60] p. Printed pagination error only, jumping from 500-537, consistent with other copies of this edition noted in OCLC. Rebound by George Sargent at Dragonfly Bindery, in contemporary style full calf with handsome blind tooling to the boards and spine compartments, as well as gilt ruled raised bands and stamped deep morocco spine label. Perforated stamp to the title page, other markings have been removed in the rebinding process. Handsome woodcuts, well-inked and bold. Occasional foxing to pages, legibility remains very good. Agricola's book was the greatest 16th Century contribution to the science of mining, mineralogy, extractive technologies, and was a major contribution to the sciences of geology and metallurgy. It was translated into English by future president Hebert Hoover in 1912. Georgius Agricola (birth name Georg Pawer) 1494-1555 was a German scientist known as the Father of Mineralogy. A heavily worn ex-library copy sold at New England Auction in 2008 for $2,100, the last very good copy to come up was at Winter Aution in 2004, fetching $6,700. The 1556 Latin edition auctions for $20-30K in recent years for very good copies. Buchnummer des Verkäufers z02781

Buchbeschreibung: Hard cover. Woodcut printer’s device on title (repeated on verso of final leaf, otherwise blank). 261, [9] pp. (lacking final leaf, a blank). Small 8vo, 17th cent. panelled calf (foot of upper joint & head of lower joint with short splits), fleurons in blind in each corner. Paris: C. Wechel, 1533. Second edition and a very fine copy, of one of Agricola’s most important books which became a standard work on ancient weights and measures. It is "a valuable book of reference on the history of ancient measures The book is also valuable to the student of Roman and Greek numerals, and of the various symbols of measures. Such works explain the origin of certain systems of measures employed before the metric system was developed, and of such symbols as are still used by apothecaries."–Smith, Rara Arithmetica, pp. 171-73–(who, like several other bibliographers, including the Hoovers, describes this in error as the first edition). Besides these subjects, Agricola treats the value of metals of all kinds and of money both in ancient and modern times. The first edition appeared in the same year at Basel. A fine copy bound after C.S. Apollinaris Sidonius’ Opera (Lyons: 1552). On the title of this work is the ownership inscription of Minims’s convent at Chateaudun, dated 1652. ? Darmstaedter, G. Agricola, pp. 71-74–"especially important for the historian of medicine.". Buchnummer des Verkäufers JHABES2476

Buchbeschreibung: Boetius 1716-1717, Regensburg & Leipzig, 1717. FIRST EDITION. Folio. 25 ff., 184 pp.; 18 ff., 82 pp., 8 ff. Register. The two printed titles appear in red and black. With 2 engraved title-pages, 1 large folding mezzotint portrait of the author, 34 engraved plates (of which 2 are folding), 6 engravings in the text (of which 5 are large emblems). * FIRST EDITION, a rare complete copy. - "This was the first treatise on cuttings and graftings, and it made Agricola famous" (Hunt 452). Agricola's claim to have found a new method of making trees and other plants grow from cuttings in a miraculously short period of time -- "one hour" (!) -- created a sensation in the botanical world and it caused his book to be translated into Dutch, French, and English soon after it appeared. The book is important because of its truly interesting and useful observations. "Its 35 plates served as the principal illustrated fruit-tree propagation manual for many decades" (Janson, Pomona's Harvest p. 215). *** Georg Andreas Agricola was a German doctor from Regensburg whose discoveries regarding plant propagation aroused significant interest at the beginning of the eighteenth century. This is a detailed and beautifully illustrated work that details breeding of trees, bushes and other garden plants with specification of the different methods of cutting, grafting etc. Contains engraved plates of plants, garden devices, greenhouses (with heating systems!), garden plants, and much more. *** The magnificent large folding mezzotint portrait of the author (45 cm x 32 cm) was engraved by Bernhard Vogel, of Augsburg after Christoph Ludwig Agricola, is very interesting as an EARLY GERMAN MEZZOTINT ENGRAVING, a process achieved by scraping off the burr in varying degrees from a heavily roughened plate. This technique was just then being developed at Augsburg under the influence of European models. For the present portrait, see Nagler XXIII, 256, no. 25. *** Small round stamps inside front cover and on first blank leaf; imprint of the first printed title somewhat trimmed, likewise the upper text of a folding plate. - Altogether a very good copy. *** Dochnahl 3; Graesse I, 43. Plesch Collection, p. 123. Wimmer-Lauterbach 217. Humpert 3375. Kress 2977. ADB I, 145. Güntz I, 164. Hirsch-Hübotter I, 70. This first edition is not in Pritzel or Nissen. Not in Hunt Collection, Massachussetts Horticultural Society Collection, National Library of Agriculture, or Cornell University. Some browning, author's portrait with two neat repairs, overall in EXCELLENT CONDITION Eighteenth-century brown speckled boards, paper spine label, small shelf mark at the foot of spine (somewhat worn). Buchnummer des Verkäufers 321

Buchbeschreibung: London: printed for P. Vaillant . and W. Mears and F. Clay, 1721. Quarto. (11 1/16 x 9 inches). Title printed in red and black. 22 engraved plates (13 double-page). Contemporary speckled calf, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat decoration in gilt (joints split, corners neatly repaired). First edition in English, with notes by Richard Bradley, of the "first treatise on cuttings and graftings" (Hunt) In 1715-16, Agricola, a German doctor who practiced in his native city of Ratisbon, published some details of his important new method of propagating plants. "This consisted in grafting twigs and boughs to pieces of the same tree, using a plaster containing turpentine and pitch, mixed by means of heat, which he termed 'vegetable mummy'. He also said that if 'vegetable mummy' were used to seal the open end of a cut bud, twig, or leaf, this would produce a root and develop into a new plant or tree. He thus claimed to be able to propagate as many new plants as a plant had twigs or even buds and leaves" (Henrey). Agricola subsequently published a book, in two parts, on the same subject "Here Agricola gives a detailed description of his method and its practical possibilities . This work proved extremely popular and was translated into French, English, and Dutch.' (op. cit.) The French translation was probably by Antoine Augustin Bruzen de la Martinière, and it was translated from this French version into English. Bradley Bibliography III, p.152; Henrey II, pp.443-446 & III, 41; Hunt II, 452. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 20176

Buchbeschreibung: Pierre de Coup,, Amsterdam, 1720. Traduit de l'Allemand avec des remarques. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed, decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in gold. With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates. (8), 261 (1 blank); (4), 146, 8 pp. First French edition translated from the German of this work which discusses the history and increasement of trees, bushes and flowers, divided in two parts. The German edition was published in Regensburg in 1716-17 in two vols. After that followed the Dutch translation in 1719 and the French in 1720.The chapters are a.o. on the nourishment and soil needed for trees and the ancient practises as well as various 'modern' ways which were applied for the increasement of trees, bushes and flowers. Both parts of the work are illustrated with 17 folding engraved plates each (31 of ca. 17x19 cm, 2 of 31x24 cm and one of 17x30 cm) on which leaves, the growth of peaches, gardening tools etc. are depicted. On the recto of the frontispiece one Felix Vindevogel wrote his name in ink and the manuscript entry in ink on page 146 of part 2 reads 'à l'usage de frere Godefroi Bouvart, Bibliothequaire des Bern, 1723.'Georg Andreas Agricola (1672-1738) was a professor in Medicine and Philosophy on the university of Regensburg. Once he claimed to have found a substance in a vegetable mummy to let trees grow in very short time; in only one hour the mummy should produce 60 trees. With this and other writings concerning agriculture Agricola became a famous and fortunate man. Good copy.- (Binding sl. worn). Cat. Plesch Collection p. 123; Hunt II, 452; Mc.Donald, Agricultural writers, 1721 (English ed.); not in Cat. Natura Artis Magistra nor Pritzel. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 4807

Buchbeschreibung: Froben,, Basel, 1550. Ld. der Zeit. Basel, Froben, 1550. 4 Bll, 179 S., 1 w. Bl., S. 179-232, S. 237-340 (S. 251/252 weiß), 8 Bll. Ld. der Zeit. Mit 2 Druckermarken, einigen Holzschnittinitialen und 2 ganzseitigen Schemata (Maßtab.). 6 Teile in einem Band. - Rücken erneuert, Ecken u. Kanten berieben u. bestoßen, Deckel etw. beschabt. Es fehlen die S. 233-236. Die Tab. im oberen Rand beschnitten, im Rand wasserfleckig u. stellenw. mit leichtem Wurmfraß, Titel etw. fingerfleckig, leicht gebräunt. - Endgültige, gegenüber den früheren Ausgaben, stark veränderte und vermehrte Ausgabe, die letzten drei Teile in erster Ausgabe. - STC 8. Adams A 344. IA 101.554. - VD 16, A 918, 919, 932, 938 (Kollation ungenau). - Die verschiedenen Werke, die in diesem Band versammelt sind, gebe einen Eindruck in die vielfältigen Betätigungsfelder des G. Agricola (1490-1550), der Schriftsteller, Mediziner, Stadtphysikus und Bürgermeister von Chemnitz war: "Sein Hauptaugenmerk war und blieb auf das Mineralreich gerichtet; doch streifte sein reger Geist auch vielfach das medicinische, ja sogar historische, theologische und mathematische Gebiet." (ADB 1, 144). Die vorliegenden Schriften sind auch für die Geschichte der Medizin im 16.Jahrhundert von Bedeutung, da deren Arzneibereitung vielfach auf antiken Rezepturen und deren Maß- und Gewichtsangaben basierte. Enthält aber auch Nachrichten über Geschichte des Münzwesen im Altertum. Lateinisch. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 1749CB

Buchbeschreibung: Pierre de Coup, Amsterdam, 1720. Couverture rigide. Buchzustand: Satisfaisant. , 2 parties en 1 volume in-8 de (8), 261, (3) pages et 17 planches ; et de II. (4), 146, (8) pages et 17 planches, pleine basane brune de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs portant une pièce de titre (reliure uniformément frottée), Première édition française. L'édition originale allemande avait paru sous le titre "Neu und nie erhörter in der natur und Vernunfft Wohlgegründeter Versuch der Universal Vermehrung, aller Bäume, Stauden und Blumen-Gewächse" en 1716. Rare ouvrage sur la physiologie botanique des arbres et sur leur multiplication, mais surtout sur un prétendu nouveau moyen mis au point par l'auteur pour "faire naitre, par l'emploi du feu et d'une matière végétale de son invention, autant d'arbres qu'on en pouvait désirer, avec des fruits et des fleurs, et cela d'une manière si rapide, qu'il suffisait d'une heure pour qu'il en produisit soixante." (Plesch, p. 123) 34 planches repliées montrent les "différentes manières d'Amélioration, tirées de divers auteurs", les méthodes de multiplication universelle naturelle des arbres (coupes, greffes, entes, le coupage des jointures et pousses, etc.), la fabrication de serres ("étude ou cabinet vitré", "Cabinet de verdure"), ou encore, "la manière rare et inouïe, pour cultiver les arbres monstrueux, par la flexion à rebours des jointures, en les liant et les accommodant avec de la momie [ matière végétale inventée par Agricola]". Exemplaire incomplet du frontispice, présentant quelques salissures. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 59493

Buchbeschreibung: Pierre De Coup, Amsterdam, 1720. Leather - Hard Cover. Buchzustand: Age Browned. No Jacket. 20 x 13 Cm. 2 parts in 1 volume. Woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates. First French edition translated from the German of this work which discusses the history and increasement of trees, bushes and flowers, divided in two parts. The German edition was published in Regensburg in 1716-17 in two volumes. Both parts of the work are illustrated with 17 folding engraved plates each, (31 of ca. 17x19 cm, 2 of 31x24 cm and one of 17x30 cm) on which leaves, the growth of peaches, gardening tools etc. are depicted. In French, 158 pages. Age browned, foxing. Agriculture. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 001687

Buchbeschreibung: Berlin: In Kommission: VDI-Verlag G.m.b.H., 1928., 1928. folio. pp. xxxii, 564. with half-title. Latin & German titles. text in German. Latin title with portrait of Agricola on reverse with subscript. profusely illus. numerous decorative initials. untrimmed in contemporary quarter vellum. owner’s rubberstamp (Aluminiumwerk G.M.B.H. Bitterfeld) in 2 places. ownership entry of American industrial metallurgist and academic, Cyril Stanley Smith. Attractive reprint edition in German. The woodcut illustrations are based on the originals by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch as they appeared in the 1556 Latin edition. Enclosed is a typed letter, signed, from James T.Kemp to American industrial metallurgist and academic, Cyril Stanley Smith, dated February 7, 1962. Kemp relates how he was given the book in Germany in 1944 by the superintendent of Aluminiumwerke, G.m.b.H., Bitterfeld, for his part in getting Bitterfeld and his family clearance from the Allied military authorities to leave for West Germany. cfDibner 88. cfGrolier/Horblit 2b. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 79. cfFerguson I pp. 9-10. Buchnummer des Verkäufers SRIölAGR79

Buchbeschreibung: VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1961., 1961. Orignalhalbpergamentband in Schuber. XXXII S., 8 n.n. S., 564 S. Folio. Bearbeitete und übersetzte Ausgabe von "De re metallica" Basel, 1556. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 30586

Buchbeschreibung: VDI-Verlag, 1928. hardcover. 1928 div. s/w Abb. im Text Geschichte Freiberg Agricola [Handwerk Bergbau, Bautechnik, Umwelttechnik ] Einb. l. ber. u. best., Exlibris-Stempel, kleiner Kleberest im hi. Innendeck., sonst gut Einb. l. ber. u. best., Exlibris-Stempel, kleiner Kleberest im hi. Innendeck., sonst gut. Buchnummer des Verkäufers HW 25034

Buchbeschreibung: VDI-Verlag,, Düsseldorf, 1961. Folio. Düsseldorf, VDI-Verlag, 1961. Folio. XXXII S., 8 n.n. S., 564 S. Orig.-Halbpergamentband in Schuber. Bearbeitete und übersetzte Ausgabe von "De re metallica" Basel, 1556. Orig.-Halbpergamentband in Schuber. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 30586DB

Buchbeschreibung: Düsseldorf DtscherIng-Verl, 1953. 2. Aufl.-Nachdr. a.d.J. 1928. XXXII/564 S., Illustr. Halbpergament, marmor. Deckel, blindgepr. Rücken, sehr guter Zust. 3,000 gr. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 9647AB

Buchbeschreibung: Verlag der Grundstoffindustrie und Acta humaniora), 4 Bl., 491 S., 7 Bl., mit zahlr.Textabb.; (Kommentarband): 1985, 161 S. und 1 Falttab., Originalleinen in Schuber (original cloth in folder),Schuber leicht berieben (folder slightly rubbed), ansonsten wie neu (apart from that like new). DSB I, S. 79; Ferchl, S. 4; Ferguson I, S. 9; NDB I, S. 98. Agricola (latinisiert aus Bauer), Georg (1494-1555) Philologe, Arzt, naturwiss. u. techn. Gelehrter, schuf die Grundlagen für eine wissenschaftliche Mineralogie, aus der sich Geologie, Petrographie und Kristallographie entwickelten, auch ausgezeichneter Darsteller des Maschinenwesens und der Berg- u. Hüttentechnik des 16. Jh. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 0603410

Buchbeschreibung: Düsseldorf, VDI-Verlag, 1961. Folio. ca. 338 x 213 mm. XXXII, 564 Ss. (incl. Abbildungsverzeichnis und Schlagwortregister). [4] Ss. Übersetzung der Laudatio des Georg Fabricius. Mit zahlreichen, teils blattgroßen Abbildungen nach den Holzschnitten der Originalausgabe von 1556. Handgebundener Original-Pergamentband mit reicher Farbprägung sowie der Titelei auf Rücken und Vorderdeckel. Kopffarbschnitt, vorn und unten unbeschnitten. The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times" (PMM). Fine copy of a very fine reprint edition in vellum. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 70980

Buchbeschreibung: Düsseldorf Deutscher Ingenieur Vlg, 1953. 2. Aufl. Folio. XXXII/564 S. mit zahlr. Ill., Originalpergament geprägt, Kopf Rotschnitt, leichte Gebrauchssp., gut erhalten. Exemplar Nr. 87. Dieses Werk ist ein Nachdruck der im Jahre 1928 hergestellten Erstauflage. Die Bilder und die Initialen sind nach der lateinischen Ausgabe v. 1556 hergestellt worden. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 25877AB

Buchbeschreibung: VDI Verlag, Berlin, 1928. Hard Cover. Buchzustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 564 p., grand paper. "In neuer deutscher Übersetzung bearbeitet von Carl Schiffner. Herausgegeben und verlegt von der Agricola-Gesellschaft beim Deutschen Museum". Illustrations from the Basel 1556 Latin edition. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 002169

Buchbeschreibung: Düsseldorf, VDI, 1953., 1953. XV, 564 S. Opgmt. 4° Schönes Exemplar. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 11314

Buchbeschreibung: In neuer deutscher Übersetzung bearbeitet von Carl Schiffner. Herausgegeben und verlegt von der Agricola-Gesellschaft beim Deutschen Museum. Berlin, VDI, 1928. 564 S., mit vielen Holzschnitten nach der Ausgabe von 1556 Folio, OHLwd, ungeschnitten, guter Zust. Bergbau, Bergwerk, Hüttenwesen. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 17820