De Re Metallica

New-York, Dover Publications Inc, 1950, in-4, pleine toile rouge éditeur, recouvert d’une jaquette illustrée, IV, XXXII, 512 pp. 

Translated from the first latin edition of 1556 with 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 by Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER. The new 1950 edition of DE RE METALLICA is a complete and unchanged reprint of the translation published by The Mining Magazine, London, in 1912.