Similar Items

• A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines, and minerals : in four parts
  by: Barba, Alvaro Alonso
  Published: (1738)
• A collection of scarce and valuable treatises : upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals. In four parts. Part I. and II. Containing the art of metals, written originally in Spanish. By the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, Director of the Mines at Potosi, in the Spanish West-Indies. Translated by the Earl of Sandwich, in the year 1669. Part III. Containing that invaluable piece of Mr G. Plattes, viz. a discovery of all sorts of mines from gold to coal. Part IV. Houghton's compleat miner
  by: Barba, Alvaro Alonso
  Published: (1738)
• A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines, and minerals : Containing, I. Curious Observations on Mines and the several Minerals produced; with plain Directions and Rules for finding them in all Countries. II. The Art of Melting, Refining and Assaying all Sorts of Metals, whereby any Person at a small Charge may try the Value of such Oars as shall be found, either by Rule or Accid en. With Instructions for Sorting of Oar. III. Real Experiments, to try whether any Piece offer'd for Gold be true or counterfeit, what Colour any Berry, Leaf, Flower, Stalk, Root, Fruit, Seed, Bark or Wood will give. With an infallible Method of preparing Colours, which shall neither stain nor fade like Ordinary Colours. IV. The Common Way of Refining Silver by Quicksilver. With some new Rules added for the better Performance. V. An Invaluable Discovery of all Sorts of Mines from Gold to Coal. Also, The Compleat Miner, with the Liberties, Laws and Customs of the Lead Mines within the Wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire, in Fifty Nine Articles, being all that were ever made. VI. The Art of Dyalling, or Levelling Grooves, greatly desired by all Miners: Being a Subject never wrote on before, with an Explanation of the Miners Terms of Art, and several other curious Particulars. Being, a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, Director of the Mines at Potosi, in the Spanish West Indies, and the Observations of several Ingenuous Persons of our own Country, sounded on many Years Experience
  by: Barba, Alvaro Alonso
  Published: (1740)
• The miner's guide, or, Compleat miner : containing I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth ... II. The customs, laws and articles of the high and low-peak, together with several private liberties ... III. An account of the load-stone, with the first invention of the compass ... IV. Several curious and useful tables, in most branches in mining, by inspection ...V. A brief account of the assaying the two metals, lead and copper
  by: Hardy, William
  Published: (1748)
• The miner's guide : or, compleat miner. Containing, I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth, and by what Names Veins are distinguished, with a short Account of their Progress. II. The Customs, Laws and Articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private Liberties; the last Edition compared with the true Original Copies, and several Errors corrected. And all their Bills of Plaint, Customs, Cross-Bills, Arrests, Plaintiff's Cases, or Briefs; with all other Forms necessary for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines, within each Manour, Lordship, or Wapentake. III. An Account of the Load-Stone, with the first Invention of the Compass; to which is joined Houghton's Dialing and Levelling, illustrated with Variety of additional Examples. IV. Several curious and useful Tables, in most Branches in Mining, by Inspection; useful to both Masters, Overseers, and Others, concerned in the Mineral Way. V. A brief Account of the Assaying the two Metals, Lead and Copper. The whole interspers'd with Variety of curious Observations. By William Hardy
  by: Hardy, William
  Published: (1748)