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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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With 154 Engraved Plates
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BÖCKLER, Georg Andreas. Theatrum Machinarum Novum, das ist, Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der Mechanischen K. Nuremberg, Paulus F, 1673.
Scarce German edition and unusually fine copy in its original binding of this machinery book devoted to pumps, presses and milling machinery by the Nuremberg architect Ber.
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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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Moving The Obelisk
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FONTANA, Domenico. Della Trasportatione dell Obelisco Vaticano et delle Fabriche di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V. Rome, Domenico Basa, 1590.
First edition of the work recording the greatest engineering feat of the 16th century, the spectacular transportation of the Sixtine obelisk around which Bernini would build his Vatican portico, and one of the masterpieces of Baroque book illustration.
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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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