Hallo zusammen,
passt zwar auch unter
- Historisches und Recherchen oder unter
- Literatur,
aber eigentlich glaube ich, daß hier die meisten Leser für diese Spezialfrage sind:
Ich suche den "Agricola" als Reprint zu einem erschwinglichen Preis.
Vielleicht kann ja jemand helfen
Danke vorab
Glück Auf
Euer
passt zwar auch unter
- Historisches und Recherchen oder unter
- Literatur,
aber eigentlich glaube ich, daß hier die meisten Leser für diese Spezialfrage sind:
Ich suche den "Agricola" als Reprint zu einem erschwinglichen Preis.
Vielleicht kann ja jemand helfen
Danke vorab
Glück Auf
Euer
Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Bischof, March 1556. Folio (308 x 205 mm), pp. (xii, including blank a6) 502 (74), with two woodcut plates and 290 woodcuts in text, most half- or full-page, printer's device on title and colophon leaf. Nineteenth-century blind-panelled morocco, gilt edges, from the Basel Naturwissenschaftliches Museum with old stamp on verso of title. A very clean and attractive copy of the first edition of the 'first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times'(Printing and the mind of man). "The twelve books of Agricola's treatise... embrace everything connected with Renaissance mining and metallurgical industries, including administration, the duties of companies and workers, prospecting, mechanical engineering, ore processing and the manufacture of glass, sulfur and alum. Book VI provides detailed descriptions of sixteenth-century mining technologies, such as the use of water-power for crushing ore and the improvements in suction pumps and ventilation that became necessary as mine shafts were sunk deeper underground; it also includes an account of the diseases and accidents prevalent among miners, along with the means of preventing them. 'De Re Metallica' remained the standard textbook on mining and metallurgy for over two hundred years". (Norman catalogue). The fine woodcut illustrations, illustrating all aspects of mining, metallurgy, and mining tools and machines, are attributed variously to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and Blasius Weffring. In this copy there is contemporary red highlighting of the flames of fires and furnaces, and of the cheeks of those attending them. Agricola was town doctor of Joachimsthal, 'a silver-mining community on the east side of the Erzegebirge mountains in what is now Czechoslovakia' (idem). The above work includes a reprint of his 'De Animantibus Subterraneis', first published on its own in 1549. It is a treatise on subterranean fauna and cave-dwelling animals. Adams A349; Hoover 17; Dibner 88, Horblit 2b, Norman Catalogue 20; 'Printing and the mind of man' 79. - <Bestellnr. 1215> 
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