A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines and minerals... /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2d ed. |
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| Item Description: | Preface signed: G[abriel] P[lattes] 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" : pages 243-319. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 pages, leaves, 319 pages : frontispiece, tables, diagram ; 17 cm. |