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A mine: cross-section of a machine for extracting water from the pit and three optical diagrams. Etching by T. Jefferys.
Date: [1754]Reference: 29267i
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Travels from Vienna through lower Hungary : with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / by Richard Bright.
Bright, Richard, 1789-1858.Date: 1818
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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i
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Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 35413i
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Albaro Alonso Barba, eines Spanischen Priesters und hocherfahrnen Naturkündigers Berg-Büchlein, darinnen von der Metallen und Mineralien Generalia und Ursprung, wie auch von derselben Natur und Eigenschafft, Mannigfaltigkeit, Scheidung und Fein-machung, imgleichen allerhand Edelgesteinen ihr Generation, etc., aussführlich und nutzbarlich gehandelt wird / Anfangs in spanischer Sprache beschrieben, und in zwey Theile getheilet ; nun aber allen Bergwercks-Zugethanen und Bedienten, ingleichen auch andern Ertz- und Natur-Kündigern, und der Alchymie Beflissenen zu Dienst und Gefallen in Teutsche übersetzet von I.L.M.C. [i.e. Johann Lange].
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: 1676
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The search for nitre, and the true nature of guano : being an account of a voyage to the south-west coast of Africa : also a description of the minerals found there, and of the guano islands in that part of the world / by T.E. Eden, Jr.
Eden, T. E. (Thomas Edward)Date: 1846
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Scenery, science and art : being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer / by Professor D. T. Ansted.
Ansted, D. T. (David Thomas), 1814-1880.Date: 1854
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Pratica minerale / Trattato del march. Marco Ant.o della Fratta et Montalbano.
Della Fratta et Montalbano, Marco Antonio, 1635-1695.Date: 1678
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Laws of the stannaries of Cornwall, : made at the convocation or parliament of tinners, at Truro, Sept. 13, anno 27̕ Geo. II. In which the laws made 22̕ Jac. I. 12̕ Car. I. 4̕ Jac. II. are recited and confirmed. To which are added, the laws made at Truro, 2̕ annæ reg.
Date: [1753?]
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The history of metal mining and metallurgy : an annotated bibliography / Peter M. Molloy.
Molloy, Peter M.Date: 1985
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Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
Date: 1660Reference: 25005i
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The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.
Tombleson, William, 1795-Reference: 17498i
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Opera mineralia explicata: or, the mineral kingdom, within the dominions of Great Britain, display'd. Being a compleat history of the antient corporations of the city of London, of and for the mines, the mineral and the battery works ; with all the original grants, leafes, instruments, writs of privilege and protection, by sea and land, from arrest (except in the mineral courts); or being prest, or serving juries and parish-offices : as also the records of said mineral courts, from the conquest, down to this present year, 1713 likewise proposals for new settlements and plentiful provision for all the industrious poor, be their number ever so great / by M[oses] S[tringer], M.D.
M. S. (Moses Stringer)Date: [1713]
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Dissertatio historica de metallifodinarvm hartzicarvm prima origine et progressv et qvomodo ad Sereniss. : Brvnsvic et Lynaeb. dvces a. M CC XXXV. pervenerint. / Quam praeside viro clarissimo Dn. Henrico Meibomio, ... ; auctor Henricvs Hardovicus Knorn. Ad Diem 6. Martii anno M D C LXXX.
Meibom, Heinrich, 1638-1700.Date: [1680]
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Geology: diagram of the strata encountered when sinking a mineshaft in Leicestershire. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 46952i
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Diagrams illustrating mining implements. Etching by A. Bell.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 29265i
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La vie souterraine, ou, Les mines et les mineurs / par L. Simonin.
Simonin, Louis, 1830-1886.Date: 1867
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Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts. Ouvrage destiné à l'enseignement dans les lycées nationaux / Par Alexandre Brongniart.
Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847.Date: 1807
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Institutiones juris metallici Germanici, oder : Einleitung zu denen in Teutschland üblichen Berg-Rechten und Berg-Processen. Worinnen die Berg-Geschichte und Berg-Rechte von-Unfang der Welt bis auf unsere Zeiten, wie solche nach und nach in allen Ländern auskommen, geändert und verbessert worden, Dann die Berg-Rechte selbsten, wie sie in Teutschland eingeführet und anjesso beobachtet werden, Nach der Methode wie der löbliche Kayser Justinianus die Bürgerlichen Rechte abhandeln lassen Nebst Unfügung aller Berg-Gerichte und Processe / entworssen Johann Georg Baussen.
Bauss, Johann Georg.Date: 1740-1742
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Canada's metals : a lecture delivered at the Toronto meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, August 20, 1897 / by Professor Roberts-Austen.
Roberts-Austen, W. C. (William Chandler), Sir, 1843-1902.Date: 1898
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Introduzione alla storia naturale e alla geografia fisica di Spagna / di Guglielmo Bowles; pubblicata e comentata dal Cavaliere D. Giuseppe Niccola d'Azara, e dopo la 2. ed. spagnuola più arricchita di note. Tradotta da Francesco Milizia.
Bowles, William, 1705-1780.Date: 1783
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Pattinson, Hugh Lee (1794-1858)
Pattinson, Hugh Lee, 1794-1858Date: 1818-1859Reference: MSS.3800-3813
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Travels through Spain, with a view to illustrate the natural history and physical geography of that kingdom, in a series of letters. Interspersed with historical anecdotes. Adorned with copper-plates and a new map of Spain; written in the course of a late tour through that kingdom / By John Talbott Dillon.
Dillon, John Talbot, Sir, 1734-1806.Date: 1782
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Traité de l'art métalique / extrait des oeuvres d'Alvare-Alfonse Barba ... ; auquel on a joint un Memoire concernant les mines de France. Avec un tarif qui d'emontre les opérations qu'il faudroit faire pour tirer de ces mines l'or & l'argent qu'en tiroient les Romains, lorsqui'ils étoient maîtres des Gaules ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille douce. [Tr. by C. Hautin de Villars].
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: 1730
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Geology: diagram of the strata encountered when sinking a mineshaft. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 46768i

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A mine: cross-section of a machine for extracting water from the pit and three optical diagrams. Etching by T. Jefferys.

Travels from Vienna through lower Hungary : with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / by Richard Bright.

A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.

Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.

The search for nitre, and the true nature of guano : being an account of a voyage to the south-west coast of Africa : also a description of the minerals found there, and of the guano islands in that part of the world / by T.E. Eden, Jr.

Scenery, science and art : being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer / by Professor D. T. Ansted.

Pratica minerale / Trattato del march. Marco Ant.o della Fratta et Montalbano.

Laws of the stannaries of Cornwall, : made at the convocation or parliament of tinners, at Truro, Sept. 13, anno 27̕ Geo. II. In which the laws made 22̕ Jac. I. 12̕ Car. I. 4̕ Jac. II. are recited and confirmed. To which are added, the laws made at Truro, 2̕ annæ reg.

The history of metal mining and metallurgy : an annotated bibliography / Peter M. Molloy.

Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.

The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.

Dissertatio historica de metallifodinarvm hartzicarvm prima origine et progressv et qvomodo ad Sereniss. : Brvnsvic et Lynaeb. dvces a. M CC XXXV. pervenerint. / Quam praeside viro clarissimo Dn. Henrico Meibomio, ... ; auctor Henricvs Hardovicus Knorn. Ad Diem 6. Martii anno M D C LXXX.

Geology: diagram of the strata encountered when sinking a mineshaft in Leicestershire. Coloured lithograph.

Diagrams illustrating mining implements. Etching by A. Bell.

La vie souterraine, ou, Les mines et les mineurs / par L. Simonin.

Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts. Ouvrage destiné à l'enseignement dans les lycées nationaux / Par Alexandre Brongniart.

Canada's metals : a lecture delivered at the Toronto meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, August 20, 1897 / by Professor Roberts-Austen.

Introduzione alla storia naturale e alla geografia fisica di Spagna / di Guglielmo Bowles; pubblicata e comentata dal Cavaliere D. Giuseppe Niccola d'Azara, e dopo la 2. ed. spagnuola più arricchita di note. Tradotta da Francesco Milizia.

Pattinson, Hugh Lee (1794-1858)

Geology: diagram of the strata encountered when sinking a mineshaft. Coloured lithograph.