AGRICOLA (GEORG)
De re metallica, printer's woodcut device on title and at end, with blank a6, upwards of 250 large woodcut illustrations Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (many full-page), one folding sheet containing 2 woodcut plates (as called for, sometimes listed as 2 plates) between p.96 and 97 (slightly trimmed), title strengthened with old paper on recto and verso of lower half of page (over-pasted on 2 line signature at foot of dedication, minor abrasion to device, old illegible stamp on blank margin), occasional light dampstains (slightly heavier to a few leaves of preface and index, mostly to lower margins and in fore-margin of approximately 20 leaves), early ink note ("Authoris damnati opus permissum") on title and small ink drawing after printer's device on final leaf, early limp vellum, ink lettering on spine, soiled [Adams A349; Hoover 17; Norman 20; PMM 79], folio (315 x 210mm.), Basel, J. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1556
