@article{536742,
      recid = {536742},
      author = {Barba, Alvaro Alonso,},
      title = {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. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on  London-Bridge,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {[16],319,[1]p.,plate ;},
      year = {1740},
      note = {Pp.1-193 comprise a translation by the Earl of Sandwich of  Barba's 'Arte de los metales', pp.194-241 an edition of  Gabriel Plattes's 'Discovery of subterraneall treasure',  here printed as a continuation of Barba's work, and  pp.[243]-319 'Rara avis in terris: or the compleat miner'  by Thomas Houghton, with separate titlepage; the register  is continuous throughout.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/536742},
}