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Rara avis in terris, or, The compleat miner : in two books ...
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- Creator
- by Thomas Houghton
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- Language
- English
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- London : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year 1681
- Physical Details
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- 8 unnumbered pages, 105 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (twelvemo)
- OCLC
- ocm44706808, ocm08324404
- This is the 1st edition. Reissued in the same year, by William Cooper, with a new t.p. and the addition of the Miners Terms (sig. F).
- Signatures : A-E¹².
- Advertisement for a mine on p. [7] at end.
- Wing (2nd ed.) H2933.
- (from t.p.) the first containing, the liberties, laws and customs of the lead-mines, within the wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire, in fifty nine articles, being all that ever was made -- the second teacheth, the art of dialling and levelling grooves, a thing greatly desired by all miners, being a subject never written on before by any