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 (Printed for J. Hodges, 1740)
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07749. - Includes glossary. - 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. - OCLC, 22753029. - Publisher's advertisements (1 p.) at front and at end. - Rara avis in terris ... has special t.p. -- p.[243]. - Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London