Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

172 171 c   AGRICOLA, GEORG. De re metallica libri XII [and other works]. 2 woodcut plates, unseparated on single folding leaf; over 270 text illustrations. [14] (of [16]), 708, [90] pages; lacks blank last preliminary leaf. Folio, 319x200 mm, old calf, quite worn, rebacked; contents heavily browned with dampstaining in bottom portion throughout, title torn in lower outer corner with slight loss to vignette and imprint and mounted, repair in blank lower outer corner of next leaf. Bookplate of Leo S. Olschki; another bookplate removed. Basel: Emanuel Koenig, 1657 [1,500/2,500] only collected edition in latin , reprinting Agricola’s 1556 De re metallica, the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy; his 1530 dialogue on mining; and 1546 collection of writings on geology, mineralogy, paleontology, subterranean life, etc. 171 SCIENCE, ROCKETRY & SPACE FLIGHT LOTS 171 - 208 SEE ALSO LOT 251 172 c   AGRICOLA, GEORG. De re metallica.Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 . . . by Herbert Clark Hoover . . . and Lou Henry Hoover. Illustrations reproducing woodcuts from the original edition. [4], xxxi, [1], 640, [1] pages. Folio, 340x215 mm, original imitation vellum boards, front joint partly cracked, front cover heavily stained; dampstaining in lower portion of opening leaves, contents otherwise generally clean; uncut. London:The Mining Magazine, 1912 [400/600] first edition in english . inscribed and signed by herbert hoover on the front free endpaper.