Jun 16, 2022 - Sale 2609

Sale 2609 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
SIGNED FACSIMILE OF CLASSIC 16TH-CENTURY MINING REFERENCE HOOVER, HERBERT. Georgius Agricola. De re Metallica. Signed and Inscribed, "The Good Wishes of / Herbert Hoover," on the front free endpaper. Folio, parchment over boards, slight bowing to front cover; faint uneven toning to front endpapers affecting inscription, commemorative 5-cent "Humanitarian, Engineer . . . Hoover" postage stamp mounted to front pastedown, uncut and partly unopened. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912; inscription: Np, nd