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De re metallica / Georgius Agricola ; translated from the first Latin edition of 1556, with biographical introduction, annotations, and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century, by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover.
Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555.Date: 1950
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Components of a rolling mill for lead. Etching by R. Bénard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 32656i
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Process of producing lead sheet, and the rolling-mill used. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 32123i
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A rolling-mill used in the production of lead sheet. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 32124i
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Machinery: a kind of crank-driven hammer, with a man working at a forge. Engraving after J. Besson.
Besson, Jacques.Reference: 45465i
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The process of gold and silver refining. Engraving, 1747.
Date: 1747Reference: 29365i
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De re metallica, hoc est de origine, uarietate, et natura corporum metallicorum, lapidum, gemmarum, atque aliarum, quae ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad medicinae usum deseruientium, libri III / Autore Christophoro Encelio.
Entzelt, Christoph, 1517-1583.Date: [1551]
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Engineering: rolling mill used to produce gun barrels, with different stages in producing the shape shown below. Engraving c.1861.
Reference: 46034i
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The internal fixation of fractures / by Charles Scott Venable and Walter Goodloe Stuck.
Venable, Charles Scott, 1877-1961.Date: [1947], ©1947
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Pattinson, Hugh Lee, 1794-1858Date: 1828-1856Reference: MSS.3805-3810
Part of: Pattinson, Hugh Lee (1794-1858)
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Refining of ore and silversmithing. Engraving by B. Cole after S. Marini.
Marini, S., draughtsman.Reference: 29364i
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Engineering: loading of iron beams. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.
Tredgold, R., active 1820.Date: 1 June 1820Reference: 44203i
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Metallographia: or, an history of metals. Wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging, the causes and manner of their generations, their kinds, sorts and differences; with the description of sundry new metals, or semi metals, and many other things pertaining to mineral knowledge. As also, the handling and shewing of their vegetability, and the discussion of the most difficult questions belonging to mystical chymistry, as of the philosophers gold, their mercury, the liquor alkahest, aurum potabile, and such like / Gathered forth of the most approved authors that have written in Greek, Latine, or High-Dutch; with some observations and discoveries of the author himself. By John Webster.
Webster, John, 1611-1682.Date: 1671
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Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
Reference: 30848i
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Natur-Kündigung der Metallen [And] Kurtzer Anhang zu vorigem Probier-Büchlein / [Johann Joachim Becher].
Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682.Date: 1705
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Manufacture of silver products. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 34586i
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Process of producing lead sheet, and the tables used. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 32083i
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Three short pieces on chemical subjects
Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de, 1779-1865.Date: 1801Reference: MS.1670
Part of: Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de (1779-1865)
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Rasendrapurāṇa : bhāṣāṭīkāsahita / Rāmaprasāda Vaidyopādhyāya praṇīta.
Rāmaprasāda Vaidyopādhyāya.Date: 2000-
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Implements invented by Ramshaw for heating copper plates. Engraving by A. W. Warren after W. Newton.
Newton, W.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29874i
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Metallurgy: casting in sand moulds. Engraving by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 45405i
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Raimvndi Lvlii Maiorici, philosophi acutissimi, mediciq́[ue] celeberrimi, De secretis naturæ, siue quinta essentia libri duo. His accesserunt, Alberti Magni, summi philosophi, de mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque / Quæ omnia solerti cura repurgata rerum naturæ studiosis recens publicata sunt per Magistrum Gualtherum H. Ryff, argentinensem medicum.
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.Date: 1542
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Side elevation (top) and plan (bottom) of a wire mill: both lettered for a key. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after Farey the younger.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Date: 1816Reference: 45416i
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Iron: rolling machine (top), and elevation and cross-section of two blast furnaces (below). Engraving c.1861.
Date: 1861Reference: 46049i
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Agricola on metals / [Bern Dibner].
Dibner, Bern.Date: 1958

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Components of a rolling mill for lead. Etching by R. Bénard after L.-J. Goussier.

Process of producing lead sheet, and the rolling-mill used. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.

A rolling-mill used in the production of lead sheet. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.

Machinery: a kind of crank-driven hammer, with a man working at a forge. Engraving after J. Besson.

The process of gold and silver refining. Engraving, 1747.

De re metallica, hoc est de origine, uarietate, et natura corporum metallicorum, lapidum, gemmarum, atque aliarum, quae ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad medicinae usum deseruientium, libri III / Autore Christophoro Encelio.

Engineering: rolling mill used to produce gun barrels, with different stages in producing the shape shown below. Engraving c.1861.

The internal fixation of fractures / by Charles Scott Venable and Walter Goodloe Stuck.

Letter-books

Refining of ore and silversmithing. Engraving by B. Cole after S. Marini.

Engineering: loading of iron beams. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.

Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.

Natur-Kündigung der Metallen [And] Kurtzer Anhang zu vorigem Probier-Büchlein / [Johann Joachim Becher].

Manufacture of silver products. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.

Process of producing lead sheet, and the tables used. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.

Three short pieces on chemical subjects

Rasendrapurāṇa : bhāṣāṭīkāsahita / Rāmaprasāda Vaidyopādhyāya praṇīta.

Implements invented by Ramshaw for heating copper plates. Engraving by A. W. Warren after W. Newton.

Metallurgy: casting in sand moulds. Engraving by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.

Side elevation (top) and plan (bottom) of a wire mill: both lettered for a key. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after Farey the younger.

Iron: rolling machine (top), and elevation and cross-section of two blast furnaces (below). Engraving c.1861.

Agricola on metals / [Bern Dibner].