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. Illustratged from old woodcuts. 13½x8½, full vellum.

Inscribed and signed by Hoover on the front free endpaper, "To Charles Butters, with Compliments of H.C. Hoover." Translation by the future president of one of the seminal early works on mining.