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De Re Metallica. Leupold, Richter, Schmid, van der Linden, Mercklinus and Eloygive an 8vo edition of De Re Metallica without illustrations, Schweinfurt, 1607. We havefound no trace of this print. Leupold, van der Linden, Richter, Schmid and Eloy mentionan 8vo edition, Wittenberg, 1614. It is our belief that this refers to the 1612 Wittenbergedition of the selected works, which contains a somewhat similar title referring in realityto Bermannus, which was and is still continually confused with De Re Metallica. Fergusonmentions a German edition, Schweinfurt, 8vo, 1687. We can find no trace of this ; it mayrefer to the 1607 Schweinfurt edition mentioned above.
De Natura Fossilium. Leupold and Gatter refer to a folio edition of 1550. This wasprobably an error for either the 1546 or the 1558 editions. Watt refers to an edition of 1561combined with De Medicatis Fontibus. We find no trace of such edition, nor even that thelatter work was ever actually printed. He also refers to an edition of 1614 and one of 1621,this probably being an error for the 1612 edition of the subsidiary works and the De ReMetallica of 1621. Leupold also refers to an edition of 1622, this probably being an error for1612.
De Ortu et Causis. Albinus, Hofmann, Jacobi, Schmid, Richter, and Reuss mentionan edition of 1544. This we believe to be an error in giving the date of the dedication insteadof that of the publication (1546). Albinus and Ferguson give an edition of 1555, which dateis, we believe, an error for 1558. Ferguson gives an edition of the Italian translation as1559; we believe this should be 1550. Draud gives an edition of 1621 ; probably thisshould be 1612.
Bermannus. Albinus, Schmid, Reuss, Richter, and Weinart give the first edition as1528. We have been unable to learn of any actual copy of that date, and it is our belief thatthe date is taken from the dedication instead of from the publication, and should be 1530.Leupold, Schmid, and Reuss give an edition by Froben in 1549; we have been unable toconfirm this. Leupold also gives an edition of 1550 (folio), and Jocher gives an edition ofGeneva 1561 (folio); we have also been unable to find this, and believe the latter to be aconfusion with the De Re Metallica of 1561, as it is unlikely that Bermannus would be pub-lished by itself in folio. The catalogue of the library at Siena (Vol. III., p. 78) gives IIBermanno, Vinegia, 1550, 8vo. We have found no trace of this edition elsewhere.
De Mensuris et Ponderibus. Albinus and Schmid mention an edition of 1539, an d oneof 1550. The Biographie Universelle, Paris, gives one of 1553, and Leupold one of 1714, allof which we have been unable to find. An epitome of this work was published at varioustimes, sometimes in connection with editions of Vitruvius; so far as we are aware on thefollowing dates, 1552, 1585, 1586, 1829. There also appear extracts in relation to liquidmeasures in works entitled Vocabula rei numariae ponderum et mensurarum, etc. Paul Eberand Caspar Peucer, Lipsiae, 1549, and in same Wittenberg, 1552.
De Veteribus et Novis Metallis. Watt gives an edition, Basel, 1530, and Paris, 1541;we believe this is incorrect and refers to Bermannus. Reuss mentions a folio print of Basel,1550. We consider this very unlikely.
De Natura eorum quae Effluunt ex Terra. Albinus, Hofmann, Schmid, Jacobi,Richter, Reuss, and Weinart give an edition of 1545. We believe this is again the dedicationinstead of the publication date (1546).
De Animantibus Subterraneis. Van der Linden gives an edition at Schweinfurt,8vo, 1607. Although we have been unable to find a copy, this slightly confirms thepossibility of an octavo edition of De Re Metallica of this date, as they were usually publishedtogether. Leupold gives assurance that he handled an octavo edition of Wittenberg, 1612,cum notis Johann Sigfridi. We think he confused this with Bermannus sive de re metallicaof that date and place. Schmid, Richter, and Draud all refer to an edition similarly annotated,Leipzig, 1613, 8vo. We have no trace of it otherwise.
UNPUBLISHED WORKS ON SUBJECTS RELATED TO MINING.
Agricola apparently projected a complete series of works covering the whole range ofsubjects relating to minerals : geology, mineralogy, mining, metallurgy, history of metals,their uses, laws, etc. In a letter * 5 from Fabricius to Meurer (March, 1553), the former statesthat Agricola intended writing about 30 books (chapters) in addition to those already pub-lished, and to the twelve books De Re Metallica which he was about to publish. Apparentlya number of these works were either unfinished or unpublished at Agricola’s death, for hisfriend George Fabricius seems to have made seme effort to secure their publication, but didnot succeed, through lack of sympathy on the part of Agricola’s family. Hofmann 6 states onthis matter : “ His intentions were frustrated mainly through the lack of support with which“ he was met by the heirs of the Mineralogist. These, as he complains to a Councillor of the“ Electorate, Christopher von Carlovitz, in 1556, and to Paul Eber in another letter, adopted“ a grudging and ungracious tone with regard to his proposal to collect all Agricola s works" left behind, and they only consented to communicate to him as much as they were obliged
B G. Fabricii epistolae ad W. Meurerum et alios aequales, by
Leipzig, 1845, p. 83.
6 Dr. Georg Agricola, Gotha, 1905, pp- 00-01.
Baumgarten-Crusius,