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MINERALOGY - NATURAL HISTORY. ALDROVANDI, ULYSSES. Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum. Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus... labore, et studio composit cum indice copiosissimo. Marcus Antonius Bernia proprius impensis in lucem edita... Bononiae (Bologna, typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij) 1648.

Folio (350x227 mm.). Engraved title (dampstained in lower outer corner), about 1200 woodcuts in text. Collation: (6, including engraved title, lacking last blank leaf), 1-979, (13) pages.
Contemporary vellum, partly worn, partly mended in the joints, spine in six compartments, some repairs un upper and lower part, faded spotted spine label, redspeckled edges. New last endpaper. Up to pp. 50 some dampstaining in lower outer corner, minor foxing and spotting.

Nissen, BBI 75. First edition.
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), Italian natural scientist and physician, from 1553 professor in Bologna, where he founded a Botanical Garden and a Museum. He started producing a very extensive summary of natural sciences, but published only four of the volumes himself. He also made important contributions to pharmacology and published an Pharmacopé in 1574. He is considered to be one of the foremost zoologist of the Renaissance.
From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.
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Auktionsnummer:

6231

Datum:

2015-12-15