A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines, and minerals : containing curious observations on mines and several minerals produced ... being, a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba ... and the observations of several ingenuous persons of our own country founded on many years of experience.
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The 2nd ed. |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for J. Hodges, 1740. |
| Description | 16 unnumbered pages, 319 pages : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Available to subscribing institutions |
| Subjects |
| Included Work | Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569- Arte de los metales. English. |
| Included Work | Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640. Discovery of subterraneall treasure. |
| Included Work | Houghton, Thomas, Gent. Rara avis in terris. |
| Included Work | Mountagu, Edward, Earl of Sandwich, 1625-1672 |
| General note | Rara avis in terris ... has special t.p. -- p.[243]. |
| General note | Includes: first two books of The art of metals of Alvaro Alonso Barba, translated by Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, p. 1-194; A discovery of subterraneall treasure by G. Plattes, p. 194-241; Rara avis in terris, or, The compleat miner, by Thomas Houghton, p. [243]-319. Cf. NUC pre-1956. |
| General note | Publisher's advertisements (1 p.) at front and at end. |
| General note | Includes glossary. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. |
| General note | Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07749. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |