Metallurgy.- Barba (Albaro Alonso) 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 Wherin is Taught the... Refining of Silver by Quicksilver], 2 parts in 1 vol., second edition in English, engraved plate in second part showing a furnace and related vessels, part 1 I6 with rust-hole affecting 2 or 3 letters, some light soiling to titles, ink ownership inscription to head of preface, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, later endpapers, [Duveen, p. 42; Ferguson I:70-71 note; Norman 115 (variant title); Wellcome II, p. 96; Wing B680 & B682], 8vo, for S. Mearne, 1674.

⁂ Rare. Second edition of the Earl of Sandwich's translation of the first book on metallurgy in the Americas. "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.

Provenance: Robert Carl Sticht (1856-1922, metallurgist and mining engineer, a dominant figure in Tasmanian industry and a book collector of note, his bookplate to pastedown and ink ownership inscription).