AGRICOLA, Georgius. De Re Metallica Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556... Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER, translators. L: The Mining Magazine, 1912. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER.
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AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De Re Metallica Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556... Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER, translators. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912.
Folio (343 x 213 mm). Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations reproducing the 1556 woodcuts. Original vellum, spine lettered in black (some spotting and soiling, a few tiny splits to upper joint). Provenance: Mrs. Hessenberg (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER to Mrs. Hessenberg: “To Mrs. Hessenberg from Lou Henry Hoover.” This first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy was translated from the first Latin Edition of 1556. Duveen, p. 5; Hoover 28; Norman 21.
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