Publications of Alvaro Alonso Barba

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  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. The second book of the art of mettals, wherein is taught the common way of refining silver by quicksilver, with some new rules added for the better performance of the same. Written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba, master of art, born in the town of Lepe in Andaluzia, and curate of St. Bernards parish in the imperial city of Potosi, in the kingdom of Peru in the West-Indies, in the year, 1640. Translated into English. London : printed for S. Mearne, bookbinder to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1670. ESTC No. R28346. Grub Street ID 111424.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. The first book of the art of mettals, in which is declared the manner of their generation; and the concomitants of them. Written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba, master of art, born in the town of Lepe in Andaluzia, and curate of St. Bernards parish in the imperial cit of Potosi, in the kingdom of Peru in the West-Indies, in the year, 1640. Translated into English in the year 1669. London : printed for S. Mearne, bookbinder to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1670. ESTC No. R29504. Grub Street ID 112480.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. The art of metals, in which is declared the manner of their generation, and the concomitants of them. In two books. Written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba, Master of Art, curate of St. Bernards parish in the imperial city of Potosi, in the kingdom of Peru in the West-Indies, in the year, 1640. Translated in the year, 1669. By the R. H. Edward Earl of Sandwich. London : printed for S. Mearne, stationer to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1674. ESTC No. R17204. Grub Street ID 66053.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. The first book of the art of mettals, in which is declared the manner of their generation; and the concomitants of them. Written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba, Master of Art, Curate of St. Bernards Parish in the Imperial city of Potosi, in the Kingdom of Peru in the West-Indies, in the year, 1640. Translated in the year, 1669. By the R. H. Edward Earl of Sandwich. London : printed for S. Mearne, bookbinder to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1674. ESTC No. R27662. Grub Street ID 110799.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. The second book of the art of mettals, wherein is taught the common way of refining silver by quicksilver with some new rules added for the better performance of the same. Written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba, Master of Art, Curate of St. Bernards Parish in the Imperial city of Potosi, in the Kingdom of Peru in the West-Indies, in the year, 1640. Translated in the year, 1669. By the R. H. Edward Earl of Sandwich. London : printed for S. Mearne, bookbinder to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1674. ESTC No. R202357. Grub Street ID 79602.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. A collection of scarce and valuable treatises, upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals. In four parts. Part I. and II. Containing the art of metals, written originally in Spanish. By the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, Director of the Mines at Potosi, in the Spanish West-Indies. Translated by the Earl of Sandwich, in the year 1669. Part III. Containing that invaluable piece of Mr G. Plattes, viz. a discovery of all sorts of mines from gold to coal. Part IV. Houghton's compleat miner. London : printed by C. Jephson, in West-Smithfield, for Olive Payne, at Horace's Head in Round-Court in the Strand, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]. ESTC No. T161345. Grub Street ID 200465.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. A collection of scarce and valuable treatises, upon metals, mines, and minerals. Containing, I. Curious observations on mines ... VI. The art of dyalling, ... Being, a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, ... and the observations of several ingenuous persons of our own country, . London : printed for James Hodges, 1739. ESTC No. N28044. Grub Street ID 17266.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines, and minerals. Containing, I. Curious Observations on Mines and the several Minerals produced; with plain Directions and Rules for finding them in all Countries. II. The Art of Melting, Refining and Assaying all Sorts of Metals, whereby any Person at a small Charge may try the Value of such Oars as shall be found, either by Rule or Accid en. With Instructions for Sorting of Oar. III. Real Experiments, to try whether any Piece offer'd for Gold be true or counterfeit, what Colour any Berry, Leaf, Flower, Stalk, Root, Fruit, Seed, Bark or Wood will give. With an infallible Method of preparing Colours, which shall neither stain nor fade like Ordinary Colours. IV. The Common Way of Refining Silver by Quicksilver. With some new Rules added for the better Performance. V. An Invaluable Discovery of all Sorts of Mines from Gold to Coal. Also, The Compleat Miner, with the Liberties, Laws and Customs of the Lead Mines within the Wapent. The second edition.. London : printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, [1740]. ESTC No. T131647. Grub Street ID 180617.
  • Barba, Alvaro Alonso. Gründlicher Unterricht von den Metallen, darinnen beschrieben wird, wie sie werden in der Erden generirt; und was man insgemein dabey findet. In zwey Büchern. Vormals im Spanischen beschrieben durch Albaro Alonso Barba, Pfarrherr zu St. Bernards Kirchspiel in der kaiserlichen Stadt Potosi, in dem Königreich Peru, in West-Indien; im Jahr 1664. Hernach in das Engländische übersetzt durch Edward, Graff von Dandwich. Anno 1669. Und nun um seiner Vortrefflichkeit willen zum erstenmal ins Hoch-Teutsche ubersetzt, und zum Druck befördert, durch G.R. dieser Kunst befliessenen. Nebst einem neuen Anhang betreffend obige Materie. Ephrata [Pa.]: Gedruckt durch J. Georg Zeisiger, Anno 1763. ESTC No. W18481. Grub Street ID 328087.