MINERALOGIA CORNUBIENSIS: A TREATISE ON MINERALS, MINES, AND MINING
Published by D. Bradford Barton. 1st thus. 1972
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This book was was the first great classic devoted to Cornish mining. This is a facsimile of the 1778 edition. 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... 7 b/w plates (some folding). Includes list of original subscribers.
Light diagonal lower corner crease to title page and following page. All plates present. Text block slightly grubby else contents clean. Black dustwrapper is lightly scuffed with a few air bubbles beneath publisher's laminate, edges strengthened to verso with clear tape.
Stock no. 1823417
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- CORNWALL
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- NATURAL HISTORY
- GEOLOGY
- MINING
