A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines and minerals...
By: Being a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba and the observations of several ingenuous persons of our own country, founded on many years experience.
Contributors: Plattes, Gabriel, fl. 1638-1640.; Green, Thomas, d. 1624.; Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672, tr.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Printed for J. Hodges
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Metals.
Notes: Preface signed: G[abriel] P[lattes]
Translation by Edward Montagu, 1st earl of Sandwich.
"Rara avis in terris: or, The compleat miner; in two books. The first containing the liberties, laws and customs of the lead mines, within the wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire. 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.  With an explanation of the miners terms of art used in this book... By Thomas Houghton" : p. 243-319.