[Rarebooks] FS: Agricola's famous work on mineralogy. Basel: 1558

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(SCIENCE) Agricola, Georg. DE ORTU & CAUSIS SUBTERRANEORUM, LIB. V...
De Natura Fossilium... Bermannus, Sive De Re Metallica Dialogus...
Basel: In Officina Frobeniana. 1558. 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. A wide
margined copy.  $8,500.00
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.

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