[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Herbert Hoover GEORGIUS AGRICOLA DE RE METALLICA

[Charles Agvent]

HOOVER, Herbert Clark and HOOVER, Lou Henry. GEORGIUS AGRICOLA DE RE 
METALLICA TRANSLATED FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF 1556... London: 
Published for the Translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912. First 
Edition. Original full vellum (9-1/4" x 13-1/4") with four raised spine 
bands, the spine lettered and decorated in black. Printed by Albert 
Frost & Sons, Rugby, on thick, high-quality paper and extensively 
illustrated with plates reproducing the original woodblock cuts. SIGNED 
on the front endpaper by its co-translator “The Good Wishes of/Herbert 
Hoover.” The Hoovers’ translation of Agricola's treatise into English 
was the first ever and is prized for its accuracy, clarity, and 
inclusion of extensive footnotes, appendices, and indices. The proposed 
printing run was initially 3,000 copies -- which cost over $20,000 to 
produce at the time due to plate replication -- but the actual printing 
was about half of that. Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944) 
had both graduated with Geology degrees from Stanford University, in 
1895 and 1898 respectively. Hoover had over ten years of professional 
experience in the mining industry as a mine scout, an independently 
contracted mining consultant, and a mining company executive. Hoover had 
distilled his hands-on experience in early twentieth-century gold, 
silver, lead, and zinc mining in a series of lectures delivered at 
Columbia and Stanford Universities, and published as PRINCIPLES OF 
MINING in 1909. Lou Henry's knowledge of geology was no less expansive, 
and she was also a linguistic scholar, eventually mastering Latin, 
French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Mandarin. Largely unopened, usual 
offsetting to endpapers with postage stamp of Hoover on front pastedown; 
minor soiling to vellum. About Fine. (#021422)        $2,500

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