Property from the Peddie School Collection
With a distinguished history dating back to 1864, Peddie School is one of the nation's premier independent schools. Located in Hightstown, New Jersey, Peddie serves boarding and day students from around the world, and is well known for its dynamic faculty, academic rigor, and bright and enthusiastic student body.
Christie's is honored to be offering selections from The Peddie School collection in a series of sales this fall and winter.
(LOTS 1-156)
PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING 156 LOTS WILL BE SOLD WITHOUT NEW YORK STATE SALES TAX AS NOTED IN THE SALES NOTICE IN THE BACK OF THE CATALOGUE.
AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De re metallica. Translated and edited by Herbert C. Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912.
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AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De re metallica. Translated and edited by Herbert C. Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912.
2o. Reproductions of original woodcuts (including folding plate). Vellum over wooden boards, uncut and largely unopened (some minor soiling).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED BY HERBERT HOOVER on the front free endpaper.: "The Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." LIMITED EDITION, one of 3000 copies printed. Herbert Hoover was a mining engineer before entering politics and becoming the thirty-first President of the United States. His wife, and the future First Lady, was a former Latin teacher and translator of this edition. Hoover 28; Norman 21.
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED BY HERBERT HOOVER on the front free endpaper.: "The Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." LIMITED EDITION, one of 3000 copies printed. Herbert Hoover was a mining engineer before entering politics and becoming the thirty-first President of the United States. His wife, and the future First Lady, was a former Latin teacher and translator of this edition. Hoover 28; Norman 21.