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Moulding sand: a lecture delivered before the Birmingham branch of the British Foundrymen's Association, Birmingham, March 12 1910, by J. Shaw
Shaw, J
1910
Ruled exercise book, with a carbon copy of a list entitled 'Important events' (relating to Birmingham, 1832-1925) inserted inside the front cover
De mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque
Albertus Magnus, Saint (1193?-1280)
1569
Includes index.
Voyages métallurgiques, ou, Recherches et observations sur les mines et forges de fer... faites depuis l'année 1757 jusques & compris 1769, en Allemagne, Suéde, Norwege, Angleterre & Ecosse : suivies d'un mémoire sur la circulation de l'air dans les mines, et d'une notice de la jurisprudence des mines de charbon dans le pays de Liege, la province de Limbourg & le Comté de Namur (v.1)
Jars, Gabriel (1732-1769)
1774-1781
Subtitles of v. 2 and 3 vary slightly. Vol. 2-3 publisher: Paris, L. Cellot. Errata: v. 1, p. 416.
Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII : Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad Metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicisq[ue] appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem De animantibus subterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus: cum indicibus diversis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus, atq[ue] omnibus nunc iterum ad archetypum diligenter restitutis & castigatis
Agricola, Georg (1494-1555); Agricola, Georg (1494-1555)
1561
Printer's device on the title page, verso of the final leaf. Colophon: Basileae in Officina Frobeniana, per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, Mense Martio, Anno Domini M. D. LXI. Woodcut illustr...
Georgii Agricolae... De re metallica libri XII : quibus officia, instrumenta, machinæ, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies suis locis insertas adjunctis Latinis Germaniciśq. appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur ut clariùs tradi non possint : ejusdem De animantibus subterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus : cum indicibus diversis quicquid in opere tractatum est pulchrè demonstrantibus
Agricola, Georg (1494-1555); Agricola, Georg (1494-1555)
1621
Dedication dated Dec. 1550. Includes index.
A description of new philosophical furnaces, or, A new art of distilling, divided into five parts : whereunto is added a description of the Tincture of gold or The true aurum potabile : also the first part of the mineral work, set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth
Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1604-1670); French, John (1616-1657)
1651
Each part has special title page dated 1652. "Of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile" and "Of the minerall work, the first part" have separate title pages dated 1652.
Metallorum ac metallicorum naturæ operum ex orthophysicis fundamentis recens elucidatio : qua eorum omnium principia, causæ, proprietates, generationes; generationúmque modi aperte ac fideliter enucleantur
Conti, Luigi de'
1665
Title page printed in red and black. Illustrations: 1 print : woodcut; image 93 x 80 mm. Subject: Cross with alchemical symbols; caption: A.M.D.G. symbolum adeptorum. Publisher's device on t.p.: 1...
Fleta minor : the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals, in two parts (v.1-2)
Ercker, Lazarus (1594); Pettus, Sir John (1613-1690)
1683
Title page of vol. 2 reads: Fleta minor, spagyrick laws, the second part. Containing essays on metallick words: alphabetically composed, as a dictionary to Lazarus Erckern... by Sir John Pettus. Vol...
Fleta minor : the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining, and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts : the first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern... in V books : originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English ; the second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, by Sir John Pettus ... Knight
Ercker, Lazarus (1594); Pettus, Sir John (1613-1690)
1686
Title page of vol. 2 dated 1683. Vol. 1 is a translation of: Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten. Vol. 2 has special t.p. with title: Fleta minor, spagyrick l...
Pyrotechnical discourses : Being I. An experimental confirmation of chymical philosophy
Kunckel, Johann (1630?-1703); Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660-1734); Fritsch, Johann Christian (1676-)
1705
Kunckel's and Fritsch's discourses have divisional titlepages. Stahl's discourse, caption-titled "Of the original of metallick veins,"is an inserted sheet, sig [N], which duplicates the page numeratio...
Georg. Ernest. Stahlii... Fundamenta chymiae dogmaticae & experimentalis : & quidem tum communioris physicæ mechaniæ pharmaceuticæ ac medicæ tum sublimioris sic dictæ hermeticæ atque alchymicæ : olim in privatos auditorum usus posita, jam vero indultu autoris publicæ luci exposita : annexus est ad coronidis confirmationem Tractatus Isaaci Hollandi de salibus & oleis metallorum
Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660-1734); Carl, Johann Samuel (1676-1757); Hollandus, Johan Isaäc
1723-32
Notes, to lectures first given in 1684, arranged in an authorized version by the author's student Johann Samuel Carl. Cf. Cole DSB. Title pages in red and black, tailpieces, initials. Errata: fina...