Agricola facsimile 1912

AGRICOLA IN FACSIMILE. De Re Metallica. 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... London, ´Published for the Translators by The Mining Magazine´, 1912.

Folio (345x220 mm. for binding). [iv], xxxii, 640, [1] (colophon) pages with approximately 270 illustrations (and a facsimile of the original title page) plus a folding page of illustrations.
Original full vellum lettered and decorated in black on the spine, top edge uncut, otherwise uncut. Bookplate of Gösta Wesslén and And. Persson Västerås.

Binding slightly worn, boards very slightly bowed, vellum a little foxed and marked, small split to inner joint. Upper corner of text partly with dampstain.