‎AGRICOLA, G.‎
‎De mensuris & ponderibus romanorum atque graecorum lib. V. De externis mensuris & ponderibus lib. II. Ad ea, quae Andreas Alciatus denuo disputauit de mensuris & ponderibus, brevis defensio lib. I. De mensuris, quibus interualla metimur lib. I. De restituendis ponderibus atq. mensuris lib I. De precio metallorum & monetis lib. III.‎

‎Basel, apud H. Frobenium et N. Episcopium, 1550. Two full-page illustrations in the text. (8), 179, (3), 181-192, one blank leaf, 193-340, (16) pp. Small folio. 17th-century calf, spine gilt with raised bands, excellent repaired binding. Adams A.344; BMSTC (German), p. 8; Kress S.123 (lacking the blank 251-252); Smith, Rara Arithmetica, pp. 171-173. Final and enlarged edition of this work, first published in 1533. The last three texts are published here for the first time. The first work is one of Agricola's most important and became a standard work on ancient weights and measures. 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 various symbols of measures. Such works explain 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). - Title-page browned and with faint stains, pages 198-230 with a small wormtrack in lower blank margin, internally a very good copy with good margins. Both blanks, q8 and x6, are present. ‎

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