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Found 73 books for Rare Mining and Metallurgy Books (1-8 of 73)

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Books on Mining

Rare Mining and Metallurgy Books
Book by Johann Carl Freiesleben; Magazin fur die Oryktographie von Sachsen. Ein Beytrag zur Mineralogischen Kenntniss dieses Landes und zur Geschichte seiner Mineralien. Freyburg, 1828, 1829 & 1843 supplement.
Freiesleben, Johann Carl; Magazin fur die Oryktographie von Sachsen. Ein Beytrag zur Mineralogischen Kenntniss dieses Landes und zur Geschichte seiner Mineralien. Freyburg, 1828, 1829 & 1843 supplement. Octavo, pp. xvi, 160, 236, 202 and x, 106. Set is bound in two volumes in later calf with gilt titles, original wraps bound in, x-lib. stamp on covers, early signature inked out on two hefts, text block trimmed, very good. Very rare.
PRICE: $2,000.00
Book by Alvaro-Alonso-Barba; A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals...2nd edition, London, 1740.
Barba, Alvaro Alonso; A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals...2nd edition, London, 1740. Octavo, pp. 16, 319, frontispiece. Contemporary calf, raised spine bands, shelf scuffing, very light foxing to frontispiece, very good.
PRICE: $1,000.00
Book by Baron Ignaz Elder von Born-translated by R. E. Raspe; Amalgamation. 1791
Born, Baron Ignaz Elder von; Baron Inigo Born's New Process of Amalgamation of Gold and Silver Ores, and Other Metallic Mixtures, as, by his late Imperial Majesty's Commands, introduced in Hungary and Bohemia, from the Baron's account in German, translated into English by R. E. Raspe. To which are added, a supplement, or a comparative view of the former method of melting and refining; and an address to subscribers, giving an account of its latest improvements, and of the quicksilver trade. London: printed for T. Cadell, 1791. Quarto, xxxiv, 256 pp., 22 engraved plates, half of them folding. Contemporaryhalf calf and marbled boards, one inch of upper edge of title page with early archival repair, very good+.
PRICE: $3,200.00
Book by Biringuccio, Vannoccio; transl: Smith, Cyril S. & Gnudi, Martha T., The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio. 1943
Biringuccio, Vannoccio; transl: Smith, Cyril S. & Gnudi, Martha T., The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio. Translated from the italian with an Introduction and Notes. New York, Limited Printing by A. I. M. E., 1943.
PRICE: $100.00
Book by Ernst Friedrich Glocker; Mineralogische Jahreshefte. Heft 1 and 2 and Supplement 1 and 2. Nuremburg, 1835, 1837, 1841.
Glocker, Ernst Friedrich; Mineralogische Jahreshefte. Heft 1 and 2 and Supplement 1 and 2. Nuremburg, 1835, 1837, 1841. Small quarto, Heft 1, pp. x, 296 and heft 2, pp. vi, 560. Supplement 1, pp. xii, 410, 2 folded tables and supplement 2 pp. 411-608, 1 plate of crystal drawings. Bound in two volumes in recent calf with gilt ruled edges, spine titles and panels. Original wraps bound in 2nd volume, N. Y. Lyceum lib stamp on front and verso of one title page, original covers archivally restored at margins, a very good, set of an extremely rare work.
PRICE: $3,500.00
Book by George Clementson Greenwell; A Practical Treatise on Mine Engineering. Newcastle upon-Tyne, 1855.
Greenwell, George Clementson; A Practical Treatise on Mine Engineering. Newcastle upon-Tyne, 1855. Large quarto, pp. 204, hand colored frontispiece, 61 hand colored plates, text illustrations. Bound in contemporary calf & linen, gilt titles, minor scuffing, bookplate C. F. Wadsworth inside cover, very good condition.
PRICE: $650.00
Book by Georgius Agricola - De mensuris & ponderibus romanorum atque graecorum lib. V.
Agricola, Georgius; De mensuris & ponderibus romanorum atque graecorum lib. V. De externis mensuris & ponderibus lib. II. Ad ea, quae Andreas Alciatus denuo disputauit de mensuris & ponderibus, brevis defensio lib. I. De mensuris, quibus interualla metimur lib. I. De restituendis ponderibus atq. mensuris lib I. De precio metallorum & monetis lib. III.
PRICE: $5,500.00
Book by Georgius Agricola; De la Generatione de la cose, che sotto la Terra sono...1550.
Agricola, Georgius; De la Generatione de la cose, che sotto la Terra sono, e de le cause de'loro effecti e Nature, Lib. V. De La Natura di Quelle cose, che da la Terra Scorrono, Lib. IIII. De le Natura de le Cose Fossili, e che sotto la Terra si Cauano, Lib. X De le Minere Antiche e Moderme, Lib. II. Il Bermanno, o De le cose Metallice, dialogo. Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1550.
PRICE: $5,500.00

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