DE RE METALLICA
de Agricola, Georgius
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Moran, Michigan, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Dover Publications. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Lacks DJ; heavy book - 4 pounds; light spotting to edges; gilt lettering on spine. ; B&W Illustrations; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 638 pages .
Sinopsis
De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals) is a book cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after its publication. Agricola had spent nine years in the Bohemian town of Joachimsthal, now in the Czech Republic. (Joachimsthal is famous for its silver mines and the origin of the word "Thaler.
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Detalles
- Librería
- First Edition too Inc. Bookstore
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3691
- Título
- DE RE METALLICA
- Autor
- Agricola, Georgius
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- Dover Publications
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1950
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Sobre el vendedor
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Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Moran, Michigan
Sobre First Edition too Inc. Bookstore
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
