A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines and minerals ... / Being, a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba [by the Earl of Sandwich] ... and the observations of several ingenuous persons of our own country. Founded on many years experience.

  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-
Date:
1740
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for J. Hodges, 1740.

Physical description

8 unnumbered leaves, 319 pages : engr. frontispiece, tables, diagram ; (12mo)

Edition

2nd ed.

Notes

Translation by Edward Montagu, 1st earl of Sandwich
"Rara avis in terris: or, The compleat miner; in two books. The first containing the liberties, laws and customs of the lead mines, within the wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire. The second teacheth the art of dialling and levelling grooves; a thing greatly desired by all miners: being a subject never written on before by any. With an explanation of the miners terms of art used in this book... By Thomas Houghton" : p.243-319.

References note

Ferguson i.170
ESTC T131647

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