Search Results: 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 from the earliest times by georgius hoover herbert clark agricola

New York: Dover Publications, 1950. Facsimile edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good-. 1st Dover edition, a facsimile of the 1556 edition. A Near Fine copy in Fair to Good dust jacket. Tall 4to., 672 pp., 289 illustrations. Red cloth in tan and green dust jacket. The jacket id chipped, with a small loss on the rear panel. SIGNED by Herbert Hoover with a short inscription on the front end paper. The famous Hoover translation of the unabridged edition of the greatest treatise on technological chemistry, mining, geology and engineering of early modern times.