Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco

9. BIRINGuccIO, Vannuccio. Li diece libri de
la pirotechnia… diversità delle miniere,
Fusione dei metalli… Venice, G. Padovano for C.
de Navò, 1550, € 7.500
4to, pp.(8), 167, (1), contemporary
full vellum binding.
Title-page with an illustrated
border, 84 wood engravings
in text, much interesting for
metal working progress.
Second edition, equal to the
first of 1540. One of the classics
in the history of science
and technology, famous book
on metallurgy and mining. Fine copy. Hoover Collecton
129-130. Duveen, 79. [9826]
10. BIRmAN, Samuel. [Vues de la Suisse]. 15
handcolored aquatints chiefly by Birman,
heightened with gum arabic. 1830 ca. € 4.500
4to, 15 plates, grained red boards lettered gilt, straight-grain
red morocco spine. Views of S.Gotthard, Glacier du Rhône,
Grimsel, Oberhasli, Rosenlaui, Wetterhorn, Grindewald,
Jungfrau, Lauterbrunen… Eight of them are after Samuel
Birman, and published in “Basle, chez Birman et fils”. The
artist is well-known for his album Souvenirs de la Vallée de
Chamonix, published in 1826. Five plates bears the inscription
“Zürich, chez F.Sal. Füssli”. At the end a rare view of
Fribourg, drawn by Winterlin and engraved by Vogel. [18915]
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