Basileae, Froben, 1550. Folio, pp. tp, with printers vignette, 4, 340, 14 2 with printer vignette on verso, half titles at 133, 181, 193, 229 and at 253, blank at 252, diagrams. In full wine colored moroccan with raised spine bands gold ruled gilt on red spine labels, gold gilt borders to binding and inner margins, gilt text edges, G. R. nicolaus book plate on paste down. Title page with very light foxing, very good+. A beautiful copy with the binding by the world famous London binder Zaehnsdorf.

This 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.