Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Tin and Zinc
by Hoover, Herbert C
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NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained and worn, booksellers ticket . on front pastedown endpaper, name on front free endpaper (Braxton Bigelow, . Treadwell, Alaska) , light soiling and toning throughout.. 1909. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Illustrations, tables, diagrams. A classic mining textbook written by American President Herbert C. Hoover in the days when he was a mining engineer and instructor. This volume is a condensation of a series of lectures delivered in part at Stanford and in part at Columbia University...The bulk of the material presented is the common heritage of the profession, and if any one may think there is insufficient reference to previous writers, let him endeavor to find to whom the origin o four methods should be credited...If I have contributed one sentence to the accumulated knowledge of a thousand generations of engineers, or have thrown one new ray of light on the work, I shall have done my share. (from the authors preface) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 199 pages .
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- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39782
- Title
- Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Tin and Zinc
- Author
- Hoover, Herbert C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained and worn, booksellers ticket on front pastedown endpaper, name on front free
- Edition
- First Edition; Later Printing
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MINING, Herbert Hoover, MINING History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Technology;
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