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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-, Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640, Houghton, Thomas, Gent, Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Edition:	The 2nd ed.
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Metallurgy > Early works to 1800. Metals > Early works to 1800. Mines and mineral resources > Early works to 1800. Mineralogy > Early works to 1800. Lead mines and mining > England > Derbyshire. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Item Description:	Rara avis in terris ... has special title page -- page [243]. Includes: first two books of The art of metals of Alvaro Alonso Barba, translated by Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, pages 1-194; A discovery of subterraneall treasure by G. Plattes, pages 194-241; Rara avis in terris, or, The compleat miner, by Thomas Houghton, pages [243]-319. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Publisher's advertisements (1 pages) at front and at end. Includes glossary. Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. Goldsmiths'-Kress number 07749. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	16 unnumbered pages, 319 pages : illustrations