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Author: Agricola, Georgius
Title: De Re Metallica
Place: New York
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Date: 1950
Item # : 118539
Sale Number   246
Lot Number   2
Sale Name    
Books in All Fields with Mineralogy, Modern Literature and OZiana
Sale Date   08/15/2002
Price realized   $ 63
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Description:
xxxi, 638 pp. Translated from the first Latin edition by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. Illustrated from the original woodcuts throughout. 10½x6½, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. Facsimile Edition.
Originally published in in Latin in 1556, the classic Renaissance work on metals and mining.
Condition:
A few short tears to upper portion of jacket, light wear and creases to original lamination; faint offsetting to front free endpaper, else fine in about near fine jacket.
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