The first Systematic Treatise on Mining and Metallurgy
De re metallica libri XII. - De animantibus subterraneis liber.
Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, 1556. Folio (320x195 mm). [10], [2: blank], 538 [i.e. 502], [74] pp. With woodcut printer's marks on title and bb6v, 2 folding woodcut plates inserted after i2 (the first plate shaved at fore-edge just into image, the second trimmed at head with a few..... More