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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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A collection of English words not generally used. With their 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 gotten in England. The third edition, augmented with many hundreds of words, Observations, Letters, &c. By John Ray, F. R. S.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
Toxicity of industrial metals / Ethel Browning.
Browning, Ethel.Date: 1969- Books
Toxicity of industrial metals / [Ethel Browning].
Browning, Ethel.Date: 1961- Books
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The knowledge of medals: or, instructions for those who apply themselves to the study of medals both ancient and modern. Shewing, I. The Age of Medals, and of those which are most Valuable. II. The Metals whereof Medals are made, and the different Sizes that form the several Series's in the same Metals, of Gold, Silver, and Copper. III. The several Heads and Reverses that render Medals more or less Beautiful and Curious. IV. The different Languages that compose the Inscriptions on Medals according to the Countries where coined. V. The best way to preserve Medals, on which their Beauty and Value particularly depend. VI. The Knowledge of the Ornaments and Symbols where-with Medals are charged. Vii. The various Ways of Counterfeiting Medals, and how to discover them. Viii. The Principles laid down by the Curious, to facilitate the Knowledge of Medals. Written by a nobleman of France. Made English by an eminent hand.
Jobert, Louis, 1637-1719.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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The laboratory; or, school of arts: containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, Highly Useful to Gilders, Jewellers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book-Binders, Plasterers, Artists, and to the Workers in Metals in General; and in Plaster of Paris, Wood, Ivory, Bone, Horn, and Other Materials. Compiled originally by G. Smith. A Complete Treatise on Fire-Works, and the Art of Short-Hand Writing. Illustrated with Engravings.
Smith, Godfrey, active 18th century.Date: 1799- Books
Pharmaceutic of metals in ayurveda / R.S. Pandey, B.P. Tamrakar.
Pandey, R. S.Date: 1998- Books
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X-rays and metals / by G.W.C. Kaye.
Kaye, G. W. C. (George William Clarkson), 1880-1941.Date: [1919?]- Books
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An attempt towards a natural history of the fossils of England; in a catalogue of the English fossils in the collection of J. Woodward, M. D. Containing A Description and Historical Account of each; with Observations and Experiments, made in order to discover, as well the Origin and Nature of them, as their Medicinal, Mechanical, and other Uses. Part I. Of the Fossils that are real and natural: Earths, Stone, Marble, Talcs, Coralloids, Spars, Crystals, Gemms, Bitumens, Salts, Marcasites, Minerals, and Metals. ...
Woodward, John, 1665-1728.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Books
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The natural history of Iceland: Containing A particular and accurate Account of the different Soils, burning Mountains, Minerals, Vegetables, Metals, Stones, Beasts, Birds, and Fishes; together with the Disposition, Customs, and Manner of Living of the Inhabitants. Interspersed with an Account of the Island, by Mr. Anderson, late Burgo-Master of Hamburgh. To which is added, A Meteorological Table, with Remarks. Translated from the Danish original of Mr. N. Horrebow. And illustrated with a new general map of the island.
Horrebow, Niels, 1712-1760.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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A scotch atlas; or description of the Kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, Mines, Minerals, Metals, their Trade and Manufactures; also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, Rivers, Forests, Lochs &c. with the Principal Great and By[e] Roads, Passes, Forts, and other Particulars. The Whole taken from Topographical Surveys, regulated by Astronomical Observations, by Mostyn John Armstrong, Geographer. Beautifully engraved on 30 copper plates by H: Ashby.
Armstrong, Mostyn John.Date: [1787]- Books
The precious metals of medicine / by Geoffrey Marks and William K. Beatty.
Marks, Geoffrey.Date: [1975]- Archives and manuscripts
Gems, precious metals, etc.
Date: c.1850Reference: MS.3606Part of: Monckton, Edward Henry Cradock (1812-1878)- Books
Agricola on metals / [Bern Dibner].
Dibner, Bern.Date: 1958- Pictures
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Metallurgy: a furnace used in the processing of metals. Engraving by Mutlow after J. Farey.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1 January 1810Reference: 45406i- Books
Minerals and metals in ancient India / Arun Kumar Biswas, Sulekha Biswas.
Biswas, Arun Kumar, 1934-Date: 1996- Books
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Art's master-piece: or, a companion for the ingenious, of either sex. In two parts. I. The art of limning and painting in oil, &c. in all particulars, viz. Drawing and Painting Faces, Bodies, Garments, Landskips; Preparing and laying on Colours; colouring Metzotinto Prints; gilding on Wood, Metals, or Leather. The newest Experiments in Japanning, to imitate the Indian way, plain and in Speckles, Rockwork, Figures, &c. Receipts for making the several Varnishes, Colours, &c. To make Artificial Tortoiseshell. To dye or stain Ivory, Horn, Bone, Bristles, Feathers, and sundry sorts of Wood for Cabinets. The Mystery of dying Silks, Stuffs, Woollen and Linnen Cloth. To take Spots, Stains, Pitch, Tar, and Ironmoulds out of Silks, Stuffs, Linnen or Woollen, and recover faded Silks. The Art of Perfuming and Beautifying. Divers Receipts in Physick and Surgery. To make London Powder-Ink, other Inks, and the shining Japan-Ink: With many other useful Things. II. The art of making glass of crystal of all sorts and colours, and to prepare the Materials. To make Glass of Lead of many beautiful Colours. To make Enamel of divers colours for Gold, Silver, or other Metals. To make Chalcedony like Jaspar or other lucid Stones, and prepare Materials for the Work. To make Artificial Precious Stones, equal in Beauty to the true; and to Colour-Globes of Glass on the infide. The Art of Painting Glass in Oil, and anealing and burning on the Colour. Instructions to cast Figures in Wax, Plaister, purest Metals, &c. Leaves, Flowers, Medals; and other Matters worthy of Note. To which are added, Many Curiosities and rare Secrets, known to few, but very profitable and pleasant.
C. K.Date: 1721- Books
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The natural history of the mineral kingdom in three parts. Part I. Of the Natural History of the Strata of Coal, and of the Concomitant Strata. Part II. Of the Natural History of Mineral Veins, and other Beds and Repositories of the precious and useful Metals. Part III. Of the Natural History of the Prevailing Strata, and of the principal and most interesting Phaenomena upon and within the surface of our Globe. By John Williams, Mineral Surveyor, F. S. S. A. In two volumes. ...
Williams, John, approximately 1730-1795.Date: 1789- Books
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Elements of the art of assaying metals. In two parts. The first containing the theory, the second the practice of the said Art. The Whole Deduced from the true Properties and Nature of Fossils; confirmed by the most accurate and unquestionable Experiments, explained in a natural Order, and with the utmost Clearness. By John Andrew Cramer, M.D. Translated from the Latin. Illustrated with copper plates. To which are added, several notes and observations not in the Original, particularly Useful to the English Reader. With an appendix, containing a List of the chief Authors that have been published in English upon Minerals and Metals.
Cramer, Johann Andreas, 1710-1777.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
Minerals and metals in pre-modern India / Arun Kumar Biswas.
Biswas, Arun Kumar, 1934-Date: 2001- Books
Minerals and metals in pre-modern India / Arun Kumar Biswas.
Biswas, Arun Kumar, 1934-Date: 2001- Pictures
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A Vernier-like device for measuring the relative expansion of different metals when heat is applied. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
Reference: 473449i- Books
An historical inquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals / By William Jacob.
Jacob, William, 1762?-1851.Date: 1831- Books
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A scotch atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, Mines, Minerals, Metals, their Trade and Manufactures; also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, Rivers, Forests, Lochs &c. with the Principal Great and Bve Roads, Passes, Forts, and other Particulars. The Whole taken from Topographical Surveys, regulated by Astronomical Observations, by Mostyn John Armstrong, Geographer. Beautifully engraved on 30 copper plates by H: Ashby. Published as the Act directs 1. Octr. 1777.
Armstrong, Mostyn John.Date: [1777]- Books
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The natural history of Norway: Containing, A particular and accurate Account of the Templerature of the Air, the different Soils, Waters, Vegetables, Metals, Minerals, Stones, Beasts, Birds, and Fishes; together with the Dispositions, Customs, and Manner of Living of the Inhabitants: Interspersed with Physiological Notes from eminent Writers, and Transactions of Academies. In two parts. Translated from the Danish original of the Right Revd. Erich Pontoppidan, Bishop of Bergen in Norway, and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen. Illustrated with copper plates, and a general map of Norway.
Pontoppidan, Erich, 1698-1764.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]