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1880 Playbook of Metals GOLD Mining Illustrated Lead

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1880 Playbook of Metals GOLD Mining Illustrated Lead

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1880 Playbook of Metals GOLD Mining Illustrated Lead Mines ALCHEMY Experiments

John Pepper’s ‘The Playbook of Metals’ is a fascinating history of geology, mines and mining, metals, and coal with interesting details of visits to contemporary mines, a history of alchemy and a series of experiments.

This late 19th century edition considers the fifty metallic elements and the thirteen non-metallic elements with over 300 illustrations and diagrams throughout. Topics include:

Coal

Alchemy, Chemistry, and Metallurgy

Gold

Silver

Lead

Copper

Mercury

Iron

And many more!

Item number: #7396

Price: $250

PEPPER, John Henry

The playbook of metals: including personal narratives of visits to coal, lead, copper, and tin mines: with a large number of interesting experiments relating to alchemy and the chemistry of fifty metallic elements

London; New York: George Routledge and Sons, [1880]

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[viii], 502

Illustrated throughout.

Language: English

Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

Size: ~7.5in X 5in (17.5cm x 12.5cm)

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1880 Playbook of Metals GOLD Mining Illustrated Lead

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