[Item #78956] Agricola on Metals The Age of Technology Waited for Better and More Abundant Metals; it Arrived so Much Sooner Because Agricola Published De Re Metallica, a Mining and Metallurgic Classic. Bern Dibner.

Agricola on Metals The Age of Technology Waited for Better and More Abundant Metals; it Arrived so Much Sooner Because Agricola Published De Re Metallica, a Mining and Metallurgic Classic

Softcover, Norwalk, Connecticut: Burndy Library, 1958. First Edition. Very Good+. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink on the free endpaper. Bound in stiff paper wraps. This book is a series of essays by the author about Agricola's famous work De Re Metallica. Profusley illustrated using facsimile reproductions of illustrations from De Re Matallica. Author's essays are based on the English translation of Agricola's work by Herbert Hoover, engineer and later President of the USA. Text and illustrations clean and bright. Small stain to side page edges. Spine age darkened. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages. [Item #78956]

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