De re metallica

£24.00

Hardback, 638pp, with black and white illustrations.

A 1950 reprint of the 1912 translation by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, translated from the first Latin edition of 1556. The book was written by Georgius Agricola (pen name of Georg Bauer) and became the standard treatise on the mining and smelting of metals.

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