De re metallica / translated from the first Latin ed. of 1556, with biographical introd., 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
1950, Facsimile Edition. New York: Dover Publications. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #337734
ISBN: 0486600068
Physical description: xxxi, 638 pages: illustrations, facsimile; 28 cm. Notes: At head of title: Georgius Agricola. "A complete and unchanged reprint of the translation published by the Mining magazine, London, in 1912." Reprint. Originally published: London : Mining magazine, 1912. Contents: Biographical sketch -- Translation of Books I-XII -- I. Arguments against the art of mining art -- II. The miner and the mining of veins -- III. Veins and stringers and seams in the rocks -- IV. The method of delimiting veins and the functions of the mining officials -- V. The digging of ore and the surveyor's art -- VI. The miners' tools and machines -- VII. The assaying of ore -- VIII. Rules for the work of roasting, crushing, and washing the ore -- IX. Methods of smelting ores -- X. The work of separating silver from gold, and lead from gold and silver -- XI. Separating silver from copper -- XII. Rules for manufacturing salt, soda, alum, vitriol, sulphur, bitumen, and glass -- Agricola's works -- Ancient authors on mineralogy, mining, metalurgy -- Nomenclature to be adopted for weights and measures -- Index. Subjects: 16th century. Metallurgy; Early works to 1800. Mineral industries; Early works to 1800. Mines and mineral resources. Genre: Illustrated.
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