BARBA, Alvaro Alonso (1569 - ca. 1640). The Art of Metals, In which is Declared the manner of their Generation, and the concomitants of them. In two books - 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, 8 o (148 x 92 mm). Engraved plate showing a furnace and related vessels. (Some minor worming on title and first few leaves, affecting some letters slightly.) Contemporary English speckled calf (rebacked). Provenance : John Scott of Galla (bookplate) and Hugh Scott of Galla (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). Duveen, p. 42; Hoover 83; Palau 23630 (note); Wing B-678 and B-682; Wellcome II, p. 96; Norman 115.
BARBA, Alvaro Alonso (1569 - ca. 1640). The Art of Metals, In which is Declared the manner of their Generation, and the concomitants of them. In two books - 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, 8 o (148 x 92 mm). Engraved plate showing a furnace and related vessels. (Some minor worming on title and first few leaves, affecting some letters slightly.) Contemporary English speckled calf (rebacked). Provenance : John Scott of Galla (bookplate) and Hugh Scott of Galla (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). Duveen, p. 42; Hoover 83; Palau 23630 (note); Wing B-678 and B-682; Wellcome II, p. 96; Norman 115.
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