MINERALOGY.
Venice, Michelle Tramezzino, 1550.
De la generatione de le cose, che sotto la terra sono, e de le cause de’ loro effeti e nature.
Rare first Italian edition and first edition in any vulgate language of “the first handbook of modern systematic mineralogy” (Horblit/Grolier, Latin no. 1546). “Agricola’s most important work...after De re metallica itself, was De Natura Fossilium which was the first systematic mineralogy... The De Ortu et Causis Subterraneorum is considered the..... More