Opera di Giorgio Agricola De l'arte de metalli partita in XII. libri : ne qvali si descrivano tvtte le sorti, e qualità degli uffizij, degli strumenti, delle macchine, e di tutte l'altre cose attenenti a cotal arte ...
Italian edition of Georg Agricola's treatise on mining and metallurgy, translated by Michelangelo Florio and published in 1563 by Hieronimo Frobenio and Nicolao Episcopio, aimed at miners, smelters and engineers. Its woodcuts show furnaces, workshops and water-powered mining machinery drawn with clear hatched outlines and dense black-and-white line work, which a designer could borrow for industrial diagrams, engraved-style patterns or historical texture.
