Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII
Subtitle: Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia deniq[ue] ad metallicam spectantia, non modo loculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicisq[ue] appellatonibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem De animantibus subterraneanis liber
By: ab autore recognitus: cum indicibus diuersis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus
Contributors: Froben, Hieronymus, 1501-1563, printer; Episcopius, Nicolaus, 1501-1564, printer
Publisher: Apud Hieron. Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium
Published: 1556
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: Metallurgy; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Mineral industries; Paleontology; Zoology; Pre-Linnean works
Other titles: De re metallica libri XII; De animantibus subterraneis liber.
Notes: Errors in pagination: Pages 493-495 numbered 529-531 ; page 502 numbered 538.

Printers from colophon. Colophon reads: Basileae apud Hieron Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium M.D. LVI. mense Martio.

Printer's device with inscription "Froben" on t.p. and repeated on verso of final leaf.

Signatures: [alpha]⁶ ([alpha]6 blank) a-z⁶ A-2B⁶.

Includes indexes.

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Rare Book copy (B669 Ag831): Blind stamped Renaissance binding

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