Bibliotheca De re Metallica The Herbert Clark Hoover Collection of Mining and Metallurgy Tapa dura - 1980

Libraries of the Claremont Colleges. Used - Very Good. 1980. First. hardcover. First edition. Cloth, dj. Quarto. xx & 219 pp. 15 plates. From a limited printing of 500 copies. Pictorial endpapers.Mild shelf wear and foxing to dust jacket otherwise protected by acetate cover. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).

Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, first edition, 1980. Limited edition of 500 copies. Cloth, gilt cover device, tall 8vo, 28 cm,. xx, 219 pp, 30 ills. 912 entries. An attractively produced catalogue, designed and printed at the Arion Press, of the personal library of about nine hundred volumes on the history of sciences collected by President Herbert Clark Hoover and his wife. Hoover had travelled the world in the early 1900s as a consulting mining engineer, building up a fine collection of rare books, especially pre-1800 titles in the fields of mining, mathematics, astronomy and alchemy, natural history, and geology. Entries include title-page transcriptions, bibliographical descriptions and sometimes provenance notes or general annotations. Top edge slightly dust-stained, otherwise Near Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper.

Claremont: Libraries Of The Claremont Colleges / Arion Press, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Facsimile Illustrations. Xx, 219 Pp. One Of 500 Copies Printed At The Arion Press Under The Direction Of Andrew Hoyem, Assisted By Glenn Todd (Whose Copy This Was). Fine In A Near Fine Dj With Slight Wear And A 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of The Rear Spine Edge.

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Libraries of the Claremont, 1980 4to (28 cm), half-title, frontispiece, XX, 219, (3) pp, 30 plates on 15 ff. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies, designed and printed at the Arion Press, San Francisco. The paper is a special making of Utopian by the Curtis Paper Company. The binding was done by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Annotated by David Kuhner, cataloged by Tanya Rizzo, with an introduction by Cyril Stanley Smith. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. His collection of books on mining and metallurgy, mostly acquired before 1914, was transferred to Claremont College in 1970. The catalogue comprises 912 entries. A fine copy of an attractively produced catalogue.