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The scarce first Edition.
37. Biringuccio, Vannuccio, Sennese. De la Pirotechnia. Libri X dove
ampiamente si tratta non solo di ogni sorte et diversita di Miniere,
ma anchora quanto si ricera intorno à la prattica di quelle cose di
quel ehe si appartiene a Farte de la fusione over gitto de metalli corne
d’ogni altra cosa simile à questa. (at the end:) Venetia, Venturino
Roffinello, 1540. With nice woodeut title border and 8J+ interesting
woodeuts in the text. Nice initiais. 8 4- 168 Ivs. 4to. Old vellum.
,f 290.—
Very scarce First édition. Brunet I, 954: „Ce traité qui a eu beaucoup de succès
dans le temps, se trouve difficilement. La première édition est la plus belle”.
Duveen p. 79: „This is the First édition of a famous book on metallurgy and
mining, containing interesting chapters on Alchemy and illustrated by very fine
woodeuts. Hoefer II, 49—51 gives a detailed description of the contents. Kopp,
Gesch. d. Chemie III,.221 States that we know nothing about the author. He
was a noble man of Siena. (1480—1539?). This book is very fully dealt with by
Stilman. The Story of Early Chemistry, pp. 328—336. One of the most interesting
features to which S. draws attention is that it has been usual in the past to
ascribe to Basilius Valentinus the crédit for being the first author to describe
antimony in detail: recent research points to the latter having written his
treatise some half a Century later than Biringuccio and it is therefore to the
Italian author that crédit should go, as he treats at some length on Antimony.
.... Biringuccio should be credited with the first description of silver, amalga-
mation and liquation, and that he was the first to mention cobalt blue and
manganèse.”
A very fine copy with clear impressions of the woodeuts.
See reproduction above.
38. Blondus, Flavius. Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum im-
perii décades. Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 16 July 1483. Roman type,
372 Ivs. (the first a blank missing). With sign. 42 lines to a page,
with marginalia. Folio. Contemporary „Nürnberg” binding of blind
Ludwig Rosenthal’s Antiquariaat, ’s-Gravelandseweg 102, Hilversum-Holland.
Cat. 198
The scarce first Edition.
37. Biringuccio, Vannuccio, Sennese. De la Pirotechnia. Libri X dove
ampiamente si tratta non solo di ogni sorte et diversita di Miniere,
ma anchora quanto si ricera intorno à la prattica di quelle cose di
quel ehe si appartiene a Farte de la fusione over gitto de metalli corne
d’ogni altra cosa simile à questa. (at the end:) Venetia, Venturino
Roffinello, 1540. With nice woodeut title border and 8J+ interesting
woodeuts in the text. Nice initiais. 8 4- 168 Ivs. 4to. Old vellum.
,f 290.—
Very scarce First édition. Brunet I, 954: „Ce traité qui a eu beaucoup de succès
dans le temps, se trouve difficilement. La première édition est la plus belle”.
Duveen p. 79: „This is the First édition of a famous book on metallurgy and
mining, containing interesting chapters on Alchemy and illustrated by very fine
woodeuts. Hoefer II, 49—51 gives a detailed description of the contents. Kopp,
Gesch. d. Chemie III,.221 States that we know nothing about the author. He
was a noble man of Siena. (1480—1539?). This book is very fully dealt with by
Stilman. The Story of Early Chemistry, pp. 328—336. One of the most interesting
features to which S. draws attention is that it has been usual in the past to
ascribe to Basilius Valentinus the crédit for being the first author to describe
antimony in detail: recent research points to the latter having written his
treatise some half a Century later than Biringuccio and it is therefore to the
Italian author that crédit should go, as he treats at some length on Antimony.
.... Biringuccio should be credited with the first description of silver, amalga-
mation and liquation, and that he was the first to mention cobalt blue and
manganèse.”
A very fine copy with clear impressions of the woodeuts.
See reproduction above.
38. Blondus, Flavius. Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum im-
perii décades. Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 16 July 1483. Roman type,
372 Ivs. (the first a blank missing). With sign. 42 lines to a page,
with marginalia. Folio. Contemporary „Nürnberg” binding of blind
Ludwig Rosenthal’s Antiquariaat, ’s-Gravelandseweg 102, Hilversum-Holland.
Cat. 198
