A COLLECTION OF SCARE AND VALUABLE TREATISES, Upon Metals, Mines and Minerals. In Four Parts.

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1738 · London

by Barba, Albaro Alonso; Gabriel Plattes; Thomas Houghton
London: Printed for C. Jephson, in West-Smithfield, for Olive Payne, 1738. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [xii], 215 pages, followed by 66 pages of text, followed by one page of works published by Olive Payne. Three works published as a collection. Illustrated with one engraved plate at page 169. Full leather binding; inexpertly rebacked with original spine laid-down, and brown underlying cloth visible at hinges. There is weakness in the textblock between pages 122-123 and it is almost splitting into two halves. Contains the following: by Barba: A Treatise of Metals and Mines (pp [1]-104); by Barba: The Second Book of the Art of Metals...Refining Silver...(pp [105]-170); by Plattes: A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure...Gold to Coal...(pp [171]-215); by Houghton: Rara Avis In Terris: or the Compleat Miner in Two Books...Lead-Mines...Art of Dialling and Levelling Grooves... ([iv], 66, [i]). Palau 23631. A collection of three separate treatises concerned with mineralogy, mining, and metallurgy, each of which had been previously been published as separate works. A few previous owner's marks of small stamps on the endpapers. 166 mm x 100mm (6 1/2" x 3 7/8").. (Inventory #: 019733)
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