AGRICOLA (Georg).

Libri Quinque de Mensuris et Ponderibus, in quibus pleraque a Budaeo et Portio parum animadversa diligenter excutiuntur. Opus nunc primum in lucem aeditum.

      Parisiis, excudebat Christianus Wechelus, 1533. In-8. 261pp. 4ff. Demi parchemin ancien, titre manuscrit au dos. Edition Originale de cet ouvrage du celebre mineralogiste et scientifique G. Agricola (1490-1555). "It is a valuable book of reference on the history of ancient measures (...). The book is also valuable to the student of Roman and Greek numerals, and of the various symbols of measures. Such work explains the origin of certain systems of measures employed before the metric system was developed, and of such symbols as are still used by apothecaries" (Smith). Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p. 171-173 (avec reproduction du titre).