Mineralogia Cornubiensis : a treatise on minerals, mines, and mining: containing the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, With The Methods Of Discovering And Working Of Tin, Copper, And Lead Mines, And Of Cleansing And Metalizing Their Products, Shewing Each Particular Process For Dressing, Assaying, And Smelting Of Ores. To Which IS Added, An Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smelting.

Assaying.

Mineralogy--England--Cornwall (County).

Mineralogy.

Mineral industries--Early works to 1800.

Mineral industries.

Mines and mineral resources--Great Britain--Cornwall.

Mines and mineral resources.

Mines and mineral resources--England--Cornwall (County).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([36],xiv,[2],331,[1]p.,plates,tables ) port. ;

Other Title:

Mineralogia Cornubiensis

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold for the author, by James Phillips, George - Yard, Lombard - Street. Sold also by B. White, Fleet - Street; and J. Robson, New Bond - Street, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]

Notes:

With a list of subscribers.

Two 'Proposals for printing by subscription Mineralogia Cornubiensis' were published in [1774], one for a two volume work, and a later one for a single volume.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T123497.

OCLC:

642341969