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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Charles Duke of Queensberry and Dover, and of Messrs. Craufurds and Company, lessees of the mines of Wanlockhead, belonging to his Grace, defenders. ...
Queensberry, Charles Douglas, Duke of, 1698-1778.Date: 1761]- Books
Laws of the stannaries of Cornwall, : made at the convocation or parliament of tinners, at Truro, Sept. 13, anno 27̕ Geo. II. In which the laws made 22̕ Jac. I. 12̕ Car. I. 4̕ Jac. II. are recited and confirmed. To which are added, the laws made at Truro, 2̕ annæ reg.
Date: [1753?]- Books
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Brief observations on trade and manufactures, &c.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: Printed in the year 1721]- Books
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A descriptive poem, addressed to two ladies, at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven. To which are added, Some thoughts on building and planting, to Sir James Lowther, of Lowther-Hall, Bart. By John Dalton, D.D.
Dalton, John, 1709-1763.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
Les métaux dans l'ancien monde du Ve au XIe siècle / Maurice Lombard.
Lombard, Maurice.Date: 1974- Books
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A treatise of universal inland navigations, and the use of all sorts of mines. A work entirely new. Recommended to the inhabitants of Great-Britain and Ireland. Plainly demonstrating the possibillity of making any river and a stream of running water in the world navigable, by can[al]s of a new construction, without locks and dams, with estimations of the expence of the making thereof per mile in length. Together with the construction, explanation, and use, of a new invented mechanical and hydraulical machine, for inland navigation, of this new construction, which will raise, on an inciined plane, boats or lighters, and cargoes all at once, even to fifty fathoms in perpendicular, without unloading. To which is added a supplement, plainly demonstrating the possibility and means whereby a ship of any size may be launched at any time, except at low water, without waiting the time of high water; together with the construction, explanation, and use of a machine for that purpose, with tables to shew the power and force required to draw or roll a ship up upon a launch of any size not more than two thousand tons. By Edmund Leach, surveyor.
Leach, Edmund (Surveyor)Date: 1791- Books
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A short answer to several objections against Sir Humphrey Mackworth, and the directors of the governor and Company of the Mine-Adventurers of England.
Date: 1710?]- Books
Anleitung zu der Bergbaukunst nach ihrer Theorie und Ausübung : nebst einer Abhandlung von den Grundsätzen der Berg-Kammeralwissenschaft für die Kaiserl. Königl Schemnitzer Bergakademie / entworfen von Christoph Traugott Delius.
Delius, Christoph Traugott, 1728-1779.Date: 1773- Books
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The answer of Sir Humphrey Mackworth to the several particulars of the complaint upon the petition of several creditors and proprietors of principal-money, Annuities and Shares of the Company of Mine-Adventurers.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: 1710?]- Books
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A short state of the case and proceedings of the Company of Mine-Adventurers; with an abstract of the defence of the Deputy Governor and directors: justified by vouchers. By Sir Humphrey Mackworth.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: Printed in the Year, 1710- Books
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Opera mineralia explicata: or, The mineral kingdom, within the dominions of Great Britain, display'd. Being a compleat history of the antient corporations of the City of London, of and for the mines, the mineral and the battery works. With all the original grants, leases, instruments, writs of privilege and protection, by sea and land, from arrest (except in the mineral courts); or being prest, or serving juries and parish-offices: as also the records of the said mineral courts, from the conquest, down to this present year, 1713. Likewise proposals for new settlements and plentiful provision for all the industrious poor, be their number ever so great. By M.S. M.D.
M. S. (Moses Stringer).Date: [1713]- Books
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Information for Robert Wightman and others, against the Earl of Hopeton.
Wightman, Robert, active 1734.Date: 1730]- Books
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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.
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: [1740]- Books
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Folklorist of the coal fields : George Korson's life and work / Angus K. Gillespie ; foreword by Samuel P. Bayard.
Gillespie, Angus K., 1942-Date: [1980], ©1980- Books
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In the press. dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall. Mineralogia cornubiensis; or, A general treatise upon minerals, mines, and mining; wherein the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, as to their origin, matter formation, direction, inclination, interruption, elevation, and depression, are rationally accounted for. With the methods at large of discovering, working, and drawing the water of tin, copper, and lead mines. Together with the cleansing and metalizing their products; shewing each particular process for digging, raising, dressing, assaying, and smelting of ores. To which will be added, an etymological explanation of the terms and idioms of tinners: as well as those which are used among the lead mines and collieries of Great-Britain. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: 1778?]- Books
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An address to the gentlemen of the county of Cornwall, on The Present State of mining In that county: with some observations on the tin and copper trades.
Hawkins, Christopher, Sir.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
"A bem da nação" : medical science in a diamond company in twentieth century colonial Angola / Jorge Filipe de Sousa Varanda Preces Ferreira.
Ferreira, Jorge Filipe de Sousa Varanda Preces.Date: 2007- Archives and manuscripts
Pattinson, Hugh Lee (1794-1858)
Pattinson, Hugh Lee, 1794-1858Date: 1818-1859Reference: MSS.3800-3813- Pictures
A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i- Pictures
A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 35332i- Books
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Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / By Richard Bright, M. D.
Bright, Richard, 1789-1858.Date: 1818- Books
Yorkshire, past and present : a history and a description of the three ridings of the great county of York, from the earliest ages to the year 1870, with an account of its manufactures, commerce, and civil and mechanical engineering / by Edward Baines ... including an account of the woollen trade of Yorkshire by Edward Baines.
Baines, Thomas, 1806-1881.Date: [1871-1873?]- Pictures
Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 35413i- Pictures
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Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
Date: 1660Reference: 25005i- Books
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A relation of Mr. R.M's voyage to Buenos-Ayres: and from thence by land to Potosi. Dedicated to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the South-Sea Company.
R. M., Mr.Date: M.DCC.XVI. [1716]