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The natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire,particularly those of Scarborough : Wherein, they are carefully examined and compared, their contents discovered and divided, their uses shown and explained, and an account given of their discovery and alterations. Together with the natural history ofthe earths, minerals and fossils through which the chief of them pass. The groundless theories, and false opinions of former writers are exposed, and their reasonings demonstrated to be injudicious and inconclusive. To which are added, large marginal notes, containing a methodical abstract ofall the treatises hitherto published on these waters, with many observations and experiments
Short, Thomas (1690?-1772); Gyles, Fletcher (1741)
1734
A second part was published in Sheffield in 1740. With Royal Society order to print, Sept. 17, 1733. List of subscribers (8 pp.) after dedication. Errata on last page, above publisher's notice o...
Some account of mines and the advantages of them to this kingdom : with an appendix relating to the mine adventure in Wales
Heton, Thomas
1707
Errata: p. [24], 1st group. Attributed to Heton by British Library, NUC and Hanson (754). Includes index.
The York-shire spaw, or a treatise of four famous medicinal wells : viz. the spaw, or vitrioline-well; the stinking, or sulphur-well; the dropping, or petrifying-well; and St. Mugnus-well, near Knaresborow in York-shire; together with the causes, vertues, and use thereof
French, John (1616-1657)
1652
E1, E3, signed D, D3; O3 signed P3.
Martini Lister, é S.R. Lond. De fontibus medicatis Angliae : exercitatio nova, & prior
Lister, Martin (1638?-1712)
1684
Errata: p. 104 (second count). The second edition of Exercitatio prior, which is placed first in the volume, and the first of Exercitatio nova. The latter has separate pagination and signatures, and...
The first book of the art of mettals : in which is declared the manner of their generation and the concomitants of them
Barba, Alvaro Alonso (1569-); Sandwich, Edward Montagu Earl of (1625-1672)
1670
Part 2 has separate title-page and pagination: The second book of the art of mettals, wherein is taught the common way of refining quicksilver, with some new rules for the better performance of the sa...
The miner's guide, or, Compleat miner : containing I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth... II. The customs, laws and articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private liberties ... III. An account of the load-stone, with the first invention of the compass ... IV. Several curious and useful tables, in most branches in mining, by inspection ... V. A brief account of the assaying the two metals, lead and copper. The whole interspers'd with variety of curious observations
Hardy, William (writer on mining); Manlove, Edward (fl. 1667)
1748
Poem (pp. 110-118), 'The liberties and customs of the lead-mines within the Wapontake of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby. Composed in metre by Edward Manlove'. Ten plates comprising figures IV-X ...