Rara avis in terris, or, The compleat miner
Subtitle: in two books ...
By: by Thomas Houghton
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1681
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Mine safety; Early works to 1800; Law and legislation; Lead mines and mining; Mining engineering; Dialing
Other titles: Compleat miner
Notes: This is the 1st edition. Reissued in the same year, by William Cooper, with a new t.p. and the addition of the Miners Terms (sig. F).

Signatures: A-E¹².

Advertisement for a mine on p. [7] at end.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), H2933
Table of contents: title: (from t. p.) the first containing, the liberties, laws and customs of the lead-mines, within the wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire, in fifty nine articles, being all that ever was made; title: the second teacheth, the art of dialling and levelling grooves, a thing greatly desired by all miners, being a subject never written on before by any.