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A discovery of subterraneall treasure : viz. of all manner of mines and mineralls, from the gold to the coale; with plaine directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries. And also the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared, so that every ordinary man, that is indifferently capacious, may with small change presently try the value of such oares as shall be found either by rule or by accident. Whereunto is added a reall experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any peece of gold that shal come to his hands be true or connterfeit [sic] ... Also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leafe, flower, stalke, root, fruit, seed, barke, or wood will give: with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stayne nor fade like ordinary colours.
Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640Date: M DC XXXIX [1639]- Books
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
Pirotechnia / [Translated from the Italian with an introduction and notes by Cyril Stanley Smith & Martha Teach Gnudi.
Biringucci, Vannoccio, 1480-1539?Date: 1959]- Books
Furni novi philosophici, sive descriptio artis destillatoriæ novæ. Nec non spirituuni, oleorum, florum, aliorumque medicamentorum illius beneficio, facilimâ quâdam & perculiari viâ è vegetabilibus, animalibus & mineralibus conficiendorum & quidem magno cum lucro; agens quoque de illorum usu tàm chymico quàm medico / edita & publicata in gratiam veritatis studiosorum per Joannem Rudolphum Glauberum.
Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.Date: 1651- 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
Pratica minerale / Trattato del march. Marco Ant.o della Fratta et Montalbano.
Della Fratta et Montalbano, Marco Antonio, 1635-1695.Date: 1678- Books
Traité de l'art métalique / extrait des oeuvres d'Alvare-Alfonse Barba ... ; auquel on a joint un Memoire concernant les mines de France. Avec un tarif qui d'emontre les opérations qu'il faudroit faire pour tirer de ces mines l'or & l'argent qu'en tiroient les Romains, lorsqui'ils étoient maîtres des Gaules ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille douce. [Tr. by C. Hautin de Villars].
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: 1730- Books
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A discovery of subterranean treasure : (viz.) of all manner of mines and minerals, from the gold to the coal with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries, and also the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared, so that every ordinary man, that is indifferently capacious, may with small charge presently try the value of such oars [sic] as shall be found either by rule or by accident : whereunto is added a real experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any piece of gold that shall come to his hands be true or counterfeit, without defacing or altering the form thereof, and more certainly than any goldsmith or refiner could formerly discern : also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leaf, flower, stalk, root, fruit, seed, bark, or wood will give : with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stain nor fade like ordinary colours : very necessary for every one to know, whether he be traveller by land or sea, or in what country, dominion, or plantation soever he shall inhabit / by Mr. Gabriel Plattes.
Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640Date: 1679- Books
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Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
Albaro Alonso Barba, eines Spanischen Priesters und hocherfahrnen Naturkündigers Berg-Büchlein, darinnen von der Metallen und Mineralien Generalia und Ursprung, wie auch von derselben Natur und Eigenschafft, Mannigfaltigkeit, Scheidung und Fein-machung, imgleichen allerhand Edelgesteinen ihr Generation, etc., aussführlich und nutzbarlich gehandelt wird / Anfangs in spanischer Sprache beschrieben, und in zwey Theile getheilet ; nun aber allen Bergwercks-Zugethanen und Bedienten, ingleichen auch andern Ertz- und Natur-Kündigern, und der Alchymie Beflissenen zu Dienst und Gefallen in Teutsche übersetzet von I.L.M.C. [i.e. Johann Lange].
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: 1676- Books
The first book of The art of metals, in which is declared the manner of their generation, and the concomitants of them / In two books ... Written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba ... Translated in the year 1669. By the R. H. Edward, Earl of Sandwich.
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: 1674- Books
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A collection of scarce and valuable treatises, upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals. In four parts. Part I. and II. Containing the art of metals, written originally in Spanish. By the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, Director of the Mines at Potosi, in the Spanish West-Indies. Translated by the Earl of Sandwich, in the year 1669. Part III. Containing that invaluable piece of Mr G. Plattes, viz. a discovery of all sorts of mines from gold to coal. Part IV. Houghton's compleat miner.
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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Traité de la dissolution des métaux / Par m. Monnet.
Monnet, Antoine Grimoald, 1734-1817.Date: 1775- Books
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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A practical essay on the venereal disease. To which are subjoined observations on the causes and cure of tabes dorsalis. By J. Smyth, M.D.
Smyth, J. H. (J. Hamilton).Date: 1798- Books
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Edward Macculloch, - - - - - - - - appellant. Janet Macculloch, - - - - - - - - - respondent. The appellant's case.
MacCulloch, Edward.Date: 1759]- Books
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Religious advices; or, an address to the young generation In general: and particularly, to young people, in these seven parishes, viz. Dunnipace, Cumbernauld, Monkland, Kirkintilloch, Campsie, Kilsyth, And Denny. In seven letters, On Different subjects.
Russell, James, active 1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Observations on the present war, the projected invasion, and a decree of the national convention, for the emancipation of the slaves in the French Colonies.
Hampson, John, 1760-1817.Date: [1793]- Books
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An exellcent [sic] new ballad.
Date: 1717 - 1718]- Books
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A collection of English words not generally used. With the significations and original, in two alphabetical catalogues. The One Of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern Counties. With An Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are found in England. The fourth edition. Augmented with many hundred words, Observations, Letters, &c. By John Ray, F.R.S.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Edward Fitzgerald, Esq; - - appellant. Thomas Fitzgerald, gent. - - respondent. The appellant's case.
Fitzgerald, Edward, active 1706-1731.Date: 1731]- Books
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The watermen and lightermen's case, in relation to the bill before this Honourable House, for the explanation of former laws made, touching wherrymen and watermen, and joyning the lightermen to them, and providing one good government for both.
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Henry Gillies, and others, Magistrates, Councellors and Deacons of the Burrough of Linlithgow, - - - - appellants in the original, and respondents in the cross appeal. Allan Wauch, and others, pretended Magistrates, Councellors and Deacons of the said burrough of Linlithgow, - - - - - - - - respondents in the original, and appellants in the cross appeal. Case of Henry Gillies, and others.
Gillies, Henry.Date: 1756]