Lot 1 | AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De re metallica. Translated and edited by Herbert C.
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AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De re metallica. Translated and edited by Herbert C. Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912.
2 o. Reproductions of original woodcuts (including folding plate). Vellum over wooden boards, uncut and largely unopened (some minor soiling).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED BY HERBERT HOOVER on the front free endpaper.: "The Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." LIMITED EDITION, one of 3000 copies printed. Herbert Hoover was a mining engineer before entering politics and becoming the thirty-first President of the United States. His wife, and the future First Lady, was a former Latin teacher and translator of this edition. Hoover 28; Norman 21.
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