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Auction archive: Lot number 5

AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). Bermannus, siue de re metallica . Paris: Hieronymus Gormintius, 1541. 8°. Woodcut title-vignette, 3 woodcut initials, with the 2 final blanks and a2, the commendatory letter from Erasmus. 20th-century red morocco by A....

Auction 29.11.2006
29 Nov 2006
Estimate
£1,200 - £1,800
ca. US$2,293 - US$3,440
Price realised:
£1,080
ca. US$2,064
Auction archive: Lot number 5

AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). Bermannus, siue de re metallica . Paris: Hieronymus Gormintius, 1541. 8°. Woodcut title-vignette, 3 woodcut initials, with the 2 final blanks and a2, the commendatory letter from Erasmus. 20th-century red morocco by A....

Auction 29.11.2006
29 Nov 2006
Estimate
£1,200 - £1,800
ca. US$2,293 - US$3,440
Price realised:
£1,080
ca. US$2,064
Beschreibung:

AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). Bermannus, siue de re metallica . Paris: Hieronymus Gormintius, 1541. 8°. Woodcut title-vignette, 3 woodcut initials, with the 2 final blanks and a2, the commendatory letter from Erasmus. 20th-century red morocco by A. Lobbs (?), gilt spine, gilt edges. Second edition, and distinctly scarcer than the first, of Agricola's first scientific work, a herald of his De re metallica . It is based on his experiences as physician to the town of Joachimstal (now Jachymov in the Czech Republic), at the time an important mining area. It is written in the form of a dialogue between Laurentius Bermannus, a miner after whom this treatise is named, Bartholomaeus Bacchus and two doctors, Nicolaus Ancon and Joannes Naevius. In it appear the names of many minerals, including bismuth and basalt, first named by him and now universally adopted. This edition not in Adams.

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
29 November 2006, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). Bermannus, siue de re metallica . Paris: Hieronymus Gormintius, 1541. 8°. Woodcut title-vignette, 3 woodcut initials, with the 2 final blanks and a2, the commendatory letter from Erasmus. 20th-century red morocco by A. Lobbs (?), gilt spine, gilt edges. Second edition, and distinctly scarcer than the first, of Agricola's first scientific work, a herald of his De re metallica . It is based on his experiences as physician to the town of Joachimstal (now Jachymov in the Czech Republic), at the time an important mining area. It is written in the form of a dialogue between Laurentius Bermannus, a miner after whom this treatise is named, Bartholomaeus Bacchus and two doctors, Nicolaus Ancon and Joannes Naevius. In it appear the names of many minerals, including bismuth and basalt, first named by him and now universally adopted. This edition not in Adams.

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
29 November 2006, London, South Kensington
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