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No Place: Filiquarian Publishing, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SCIENCE. Faint moisture damage to lower corners margins only pages 293-362. (32)640pp. Indexes. Illustrations. Translated rfrom the Latin edition of 1556, published by The Mining Magazine 1912.

Mansfield Center, CT: Martino Publishing, 2014. Soft cover. Very good. 8vo (24 x 19 cm). 638 pp. Glossy black covers with illustration of kiln to upper, Yellow titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dover Pubns, 1950. Very Good, Paperback, 6 3/4" x 10 3/4", edges rubbed, 638 pages, black and white illustrations. Paperback. Very Good.

Dover Publ. NY, 1950. New 1950 edition. Hardcover. very good/good. NOT an ex library book. 638 pages including the index. Dust jacket has 3/4" chip top front, other smaller chips and tears. Price is not clipped.

New York.: Dover., 1950.. Reprint.. Soft cover. . Near fine copy (rubbing along edges).. 4to.. Illustrated. Important reference work.

New York, NY: Dover Publications. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1950. ........ Hardcover. 4to., 638 pp., rubbed, bumped, pages lightly toned .

New York: Dover Publiscations, Inc, 1950. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st printing (same date). 638pp. Corners bumped, a little edgewear, very good in dust jacket with a little edgewear

New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1950. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. [3], iv-xxxi, [1 (blank)], 638 pages. 11 x 7 inches. Publisher's green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A very nice copy with a touch of wear to the corner tips and edges of the cloth binding and dj. Sound and clean, it is difficult to find in presentable condition. Cloth. Originally published in 1556, this is a reprint of 1912 translated edition done by The Mining Magazine. "Originally published in 1556, Agricola's De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation - what today would be called the 'scientific approach.' It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various specialized techniques of the many branches of mining, and the first to provide a realistic history of mining from antiquity to its day. For almost 200 years, Agricola remained the only authoritative work in this area and… Leer más

New York: Dover Publications, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine; 638 pp. indexed and illustrated. Former owner's stamp on front pastedown and lower front title page, along with an unused postage stamp (5 cents) with the image of Hoover. Also laid in is a first day of issue stamped Hoover envelope, addressed to an MD in Minnesota and dated 1965. The dust jacket is price-clipped and has a chip on th eupper corner of front panel, and is now protected in mylar. "This new 1950 edition of De Re Metallica is a complete and unchanged reprint of the translation published by The Mining Magazine, London , in 1912." A nice copy. Ships within 24 hours!

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.

Mining Magazine, 1912-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's vellum, with black spine lettering. Hinges restored. Soiling / staining to cover. Limited edition of 3000 copies printed by the Mining Magazine in 1912. xxxi, 640 pages : illustrations ; 35 cm. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Hugo Reinbold's stamp and inscription on end page. Biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century. This volume is the 1st English translation of the De Re Metallica, privately published by subscription. It was translated by future President Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer, and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, a geologist and classical scholar. The contents of the book are separated into 12 books: Book I: Arguments for and against this art; Book II: The miner and a discourse on the finding of veins; Book III: Veins and stringers and… Leer más