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BARBA, Alvaro Alonso (1569 - ca 1640). The First Book of the Art of Mettals, In which is Declared the manner of their Generation; and the concomitants of them. -- The Second Book of the Art of Mettals. Both translated by Edward Montagu, the first Earl of Sandwich (1625-1672). London: for S. Mearne, 1674.
Two parts in one volume, 8o (148 x 92 mm). Engraved plate showing a furnace and related vessels in second part. (Small area of minor adhesion damage on title-page, affecting rule border slightly, two marginal chips on A8.) Modern half morocco gilt (spine head pulled). Provenance: "Rd. Densford(?)" (early signature on title-page).
Second edition in English (first published in English in 1670) of this popular work by the Spanish priest, Barba, who was sent by the Church in 1588 to Peru to study mineral deposits and local mining techniques. The work was originally published in 1640 under the title El arte de los metales, and was "the first significant treatise on metals to be written in Spanish, and the only seventeenth-century work on its subject that was largely original" (Norman). There was another state of the title-page which reads The art of metals (see Wing B-678). Duveen, p. 42; Ferguson I:70-71 note; Hoover 83; Norman 115 (variant title); Palau 23630 (note); Wing B-680 and B-682; Wellcome II, p. 96.
Two parts in one volume, 8o (148 x 92 mm). Engraved plate showing a furnace and related vessels in second part. (Small area of minor adhesion damage on title-page, affecting rule border slightly, two marginal chips on A8.) Modern half morocco gilt (spine head pulled). Provenance: "Rd. Densford(?)" (early signature on title-page).
Second edition in English (first published in English in 1670) of this popular work by the Spanish priest, Barba, who was sent by the Church in 1588 to Peru to study mineral deposits and local mining techniques. The work was originally published in 1640 under the title El arte de los metales, and was "the first significant treatise on metals to be written in Spanish, and the only seventeenth-century work on its subject that was largely original" (Norman). There was another state of the title-page which reads The art of metals (see Wing B-678). Duveen, p. 42; Ferguson I:70-71 note; Hoover 83; Norman 115 (variant title); Palau 23630 (note); Wing B-680 and B-682; Wellcome II, p. 96.