New York: Basic Books. 1959. (The Collector's Series in Science.) Translated from the Italian with an Introduction and Notes by Cyril Stanley Smith & Martha Teach Gnudi. 3rd impression thus. 4to; xxviii, 477pp, illustrated (woodcuts). Cloth-backed papered boards, head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. No slip-case. Owner's name on ffep. Very good. ISBN ***First published in 1540; the Sienese Biringuccio was by a master craftsman in the practices of smelting and metalworking. .