Session I: Tuesday, 9 November | 10am CT Science & Natural History Lots 1-66
1 AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De Re Metallica Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Minerology & Mining Law from the Earliest Times to the 16th Century. Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER, translators. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912. Folio (346 x 211 mm). Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations reproducing the 1556 woodcuts. Publisher’s original full vellum, smooth spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, black lettered in 3 compartments, 2 edges uncut (some very minor wear, some browning to edges); original brown dustjacket with manuscript lettering to front cover (soiled, chipped, rubbed). Provenance: Charles F. Rand (inscription, stamp on dustjacket). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER to Charles F. Rand: “To Charles F. Rand with Compliments of H.C. Hoover.” This first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy was translated from the first Latin Edition of 1556. Duveen, p. 5; Hoover 28; Norman 21. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600
2 AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, Henricus Cornelius (1486?-1535). De Incertitudine & Vanitate Scientiarum Declamatio Invectiva, Denuo ab Autore Recognita, & Marginalibus Annotationibus Aucta. [Cologne]: T. Baumius, 1544. 8vo (157 x 97 mm). Woodcut portrait on title-page, 2 woodcut initials. (Some underlining, some dampstaining, small marginal wormholes toward rear). Contemporary calf rebacked (all else preserved), spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, blind-stamped sides (sides worn, some wormholes, annotation on fore-edge “Van. Scich”). Provenance: Anto[nius] Manuelus? (signature, some annotations); Philip vir De Lauberivière (signature, some annotations). Early edition, first published in 1530. Following the publication of this work, Agrippa was branded a heretic and lost his position as the imperial historiographer to Charles V for scrutinizing intellectual activity in his satirical call for a return to the faith as exemplified by the early Christian church. STC German p. 11; not in Adams. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400
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