De Ortu & Causis Subterraneorum Lib. V. De Natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra Lib...
Woodcut printer’s device on title, repeated on verso of last leaf, & a full-page woodcut illus. on p. 146. 487, [52] pp. Folio, 18th-cent. polished calf (joints carefully repaired), triple gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, red & green morocco lettering pieces on spine. Basel: Froben, 1546.
First edition, and a very handsome copy, of “the first handbook of modern systematic mineralogy.”–Horblit 2a. With the bookplate of Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847), the well-known geologist and mineralogist (see D.S.B., II, pp. 493-97).
This volume is comprised “of De Ortu et Causis Subterraneorum, in five ‘books,’ the first work on physical geology; De Natura... More