De re metallica / Giorgius Agricola ; translated from the first Latin ed. of 1556, with biographical introd., 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
Contributors: Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964; Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Dover
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
Subjects: Metallurgy; Early works to 1800; Mineral industries
Notes: "A complete and unchanged reprint of the translation published by the Mining magazine, London, in 1912."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-606) and indexes.