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Probier bchlein auff Gold Silber Kupffer und Bley. [Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, after 1524].
8o (151 x 102 mm). Collation: A-G8 H6. 62 leaves, foliated. Gothic type. Woodcut title vignette showing an assayer, diagram, and several woodcuts in text showing various furnaces. (Title-page darkened with gutter and fore-margins renewed, 2 leaves misbound [A2 and A7 reversed], some minor marginal wormtracks, some soiling.) Modern binding using old vellum manuscript (15th-century antiphonal); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Robert B. Honeyman (sale, part VI, Sotheby's, 11 November 1980, lot 2540).
"The Probierbchlein...were 'little books on assaying' written much in the style of notebooks or recipe books for the very early practicing metallurgists, primarily those working with silver and gold...The Probierbchlein appeared (after 1520) slightly later than the Bergbchlein (which date almost to 1500)" (Hoover). VERY RARE. Hoover 660 (describing this edition as the earliest in the Hoover Collection); Norman 1759.
[Bound with:]
Bergwerck und Probir buhlin. fr die Bergck und feurwercker, Goldschmid Alchimisten und Knstner. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolph, 1533.
8o (146 x 102 mm). Collation: A-E8. 38 leaves (of 40, B4.5 supplied in photostat), foliated. Gothic type. Woodcut title vignette showing silversmith at work in their workshop, numerous other woodcuts and diagrams in text (one supplied on leaf in photostat). (Some worming to upper margins affecting a few letters, some soiling.)
A later edition of Ein ntzlich Bergbuchlein, a treatise on metal veins and ores published at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Agricola attributes the authorship of this work to Ulrich Rlein von Kalbe. Hoover 117; Norman 194.
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"The Probierbchlein...were 'little books on assaying' written much in the style of notebooks or recipe books for the very early practicing metallurgists, primarily those working with silver and gold...The Probierbchlein appeared (after 1520) slightly later than the Bergbchlein (which date almost to 1500)" (Hoover). VERY RARE. Hoover 660 (describing this edition as the earliest in the Hoover Collection); Norman 1759.
[Bound with:]
Bergwerck und Probir buhlin. fr die Bergck und feurwercker, Goldschmid Alchimisten und Knstner. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolph, 1533.
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A later edition of Ein ntzlich Bergbuchlein, a treatise on metal veins and ores published at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Agricola attributes the authorship of this work to Ulrich Rlein von Kalbe. Hoover 117; Norman 194.