Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1665 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. [4], xxxi, 640 pp. Illustrated from old woodcuts. 13½x8½, full vellum.

Inscribed and signed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper, "Kind regards of Herbert Hoover." Mounted to the front pastedown endpaper is a TLs on White House stationary from President Hoover's secretary Lawrence Richey expressing the President's pleasure in signing this copy for Mr. [Herman Thomas] Warshow and thanking him for the gift of a signed copy of Mr. Horshow's book "Representative Industries in the United States".