[Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, translators]. Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica. London: the Mining Maga...

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Inscribed by Herbert Hoover

[Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, translators]. Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica. London: the Mining Magazine, 1912.

First edition in English. Folio. xxxi, 640 pages. Inscribed by Herbert Hoover and Lou Hoover, the translators. Reproductions of all 270 woodcuts of the 1556 edition. Index.

Full vellum. Moderate foxing throughout. Some mild wear to the binding. Very good.

Before entering politics and becoming president of the United States, Herbert Hoover worked as a mining engineer. He wrote a standard textbook on the subject. Later, with the help of his wife Lou's expertise in Latin, they collaborated in the translating and annotating of the classic 1556 work on mining and smelting De Re Metallica by Geog Bauer (aka Georgius Agricola). Theirs remains the standard English translation. The book was privately printed by the Mining Magazine for subscribers, and it is unlikely more than 1,500 were printed.