1838 OBSERVATIONS ON MINERAL VEINS Geology ART OF MINING Minerals 1ST EDITION

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1838 OBSERVATIONS ON MINERAL VEINS Geology ART OF MINING Minerals 1ST EDITION:
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[Geology] ~ LEITHART, John Practical observations on the mechanical structure, mode of formation, the repletion or filling up, and the intersection and relative age of mineral veins; with the application of several new theoretical principles to the art of mining London. John Weale, 1838.

8vo. 8, 83pp, [1]. With 11 engraved plates. Original publisher's cloth-backed paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and marked with chipping to lettering-piece and some loss to head of spine. Lightly foxed, damp-staining to all plates.

A scarce treatise on the geology and mining of mineral ores by John Leithart, who states in his introduction that ‘a large portion of his time, from his infancy, was spent in mines’.COPAC records eight copies (Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial College, Manchester, NHM, and Senate House Libraries).

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