Mining.- Plattes (Gabriel) [A Discovery of Subterraneall Treasure, viz. Of all manner of Mines and Mineralls, from the Gold to the Coale], first edition, woodcut initials and decorations, lacks A1 (blank), top half of title cut away and replaced with title from a later edition, pasted on to original title on lower half, B1 small piece of corner torn away not affecting text, B2 and F1 small burnholes very slightly affecting a few letters, browned, new endpapers, modern cloth-backed boards, [ESTC 2000; Sabin 63360], sm. 4to, I. Okes for Jasper Emery, 1639.
⁂ First edition of one of the first books in English on mining and metallurgy. Includes "interesting notices of the gold and silver mines in Peru, New England, Virginia, the Bermudas, and other parts of America" - Sabin.
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