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AGRICOLA, GEORGIUS, TRANSLATED BY HERBERT HOOVER AND LOU HENRY HOOVER Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556, with Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices Upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law (cont.)
... London, England, The Mining Magazine. 1912, First English Language Edition. (cont. title) ".. from the earliest times to the 16th Century." Printed by Albert Frost and Sons, Rugby, in an edition of 3000 copies. xxxi, 640 pages; facsimile engravings; indexes; bound in full imitationvellum. Edited by Herbert Hoover and translated by his wife Lou Henry Hoover, with the assistance of three Latin scholars, over a five year period. Herbert Hoover contributed the introduction and footnotes, having visted actual mine sites in the Alps and Europe, along with carring out Agricola's formulas in laboratories to check the translations. Facsimile engravings of the original woodcuts from the 1556 edition are included. Issued in a limited edition for Herbert Hoover who gave over half the copies free to mining engineers and students. The work has quickly become and remains a valued collector's item. In 1912, the book cost $20,000 to produce the 3000 copies. A fine and generally unopened copy. Fine.
Offered for US$ 1000.00 by: Barry Cassidy Rare Books - Book number: 10801