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Technology/Engineering
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Agricola's First Book On Mining
In A Rare Separate Leipzig Imprint
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AGRICOLA, Georg. Bermannus, sive de re metallica. Ab accurata autoris recognitione & emendatione nunc primum editus. Cum nomenclatura rerum metallicarum. Leipzig, Valentinus Pap, 1546.
Rare Leipzig printing of Agricola's first book devoted to mining, "a pioneer delineation of mining and metallurgy" (DSB), and of particular interest to the study of occupational diseases.
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Classic Technological Compendium
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BESSON, Jacques. Theatrum instrumentorum et Machinarum. Lyon, Barthelemy Vincent, 1578.
Early edition, with Latin commentary, of the most influential illustrated technological compendium of the Renaissance, "the first independent work on machinery published" - Zeitlinger.
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Early American Technology
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HOUGH, Horatio Gates. Diving, or an attempt to describe upon Hydraulic and hydrostatic principles, a method of supplying the diver with air under water. Hartford, John Russell Jr., 1813.
First edition. Published during the War of 1812, an early American pamphlet describing two methods for supplying a diver with air.
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Tuscan Agriculture
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RIGACCI, Giuseppe. Nuova Maniera Di Seminare E Coltivare Il Grano. Florence, Andrea Bonducci, 1764.
Rare work devoted to one of the important achievements of 18th-century technology, the development of mechanical farm implements.
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“[T]he first illustrations prepared with a microscope
That were set forth in a printed book.” (Singer).
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[GALILEIANA] STELLUTI, Francesco/ PERSIUS. Persio tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato da Francesco Stelluti, Accademia Linceo da Fabbriano. Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1630.
First edition of this illustrated Italian translation of the Roman poet Persius (CE 34-62) by Galileo’s correspondent, friend, and fellow member of the Accademia Linceo, containing “the first illustrations prepared with a microscope that were set forth in a printed book” (Singer p. 148), including the anatomical ‘bee’ engraving made possible with Galileo’s microscope.
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