Prodromus of the Metallurgical Library

• Bohusl. Balbin, priest of the Society of Jesus, Miscellanea Historica Regni Bohemiæ Historical Miscellany of the Kingdom of Bohemia. fol. Prague 1679. In several chapters, he also describes the mines, metals, precious and other stones in Bohemia.

Baldi Baldii de Magnetis & alii antipathia On the antipathy of the magnet and others. 8vo Rome 1612.

Christ. Adolph. Balduini aurum superius & inferius &c. Superior and inferior gold, etc.

Also published in the appendix to Vol. IV of the Acta Academiæ Naturæ Curiosorum Germanorum Acts of the German Academy of Natural Curiosities, No. 7.

Idem The same. Observ. circa regerminationem argenti novo artificio inventam Observations concerning the regermination of silver discovered by a new artifice; published in Vol. IV, Miscellanea Germanica Naturæ Curiosorum, Year IV, Decad I.

Idem. Venus aurea, in forma chrysocollæ fossilis cum fulmine cœlitus delapsa propettaynam d. 8. Maji 1677 Golden Venus, in the form of fossil chrysocolla having fallen from heaven with lightning at Propettayna on May 8, 1677.

• de Balneis On Baths, all that exists among the Greeks, Latins, and Arabs is contained in this volume, in which the natures, forces, and uses of waters, all thermal springs, metals, and remaining minerals are also explained. fol. Venice 1553.

Theodor. Balthasar, Dissertation on common salt. 4to Altdorf 1702.

Idem. Brief description of the excellent properties of common salt and its usefulness, likewise the preference of Hallish likely referring to the saltworks of Halle salt over others. 4to Erlangen 1708.

• Albaro Alons. Barba, Bergbüchlein Little Mining Book, wherein the generation and origin of metals and minerals are treated, as well as their nature and property, variety, separation, and refining, likewise all sorts of precious stones, their generation, etc., in a detailed and useful manner; translated from Spanish into German by J. L. M. C.
  8vo Hamburg 1676. 14 sheets, 1 leaf ♃?.

• 8vo Frankfurt 1726. 14 sheets, 1 leaf ♃?.

• see Seyffert's Bibliotheca metallica Metallurgical Library, II. Repositor, p. 155.

Idem. de arte metallica On the art of metals, published in Spanish at Cordoba 1675.

• 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, translated by the R. H. Edward Earl of Sandwich. 8vo London 1674.
  8vo Ibid. 1669.
• Idem. Arte de los Metalles en que se ensenna el verdadero beneficio de los de oro, y plata por açogue el modo de Fundirlos todos y como se han de refinar, y apartar unos de otros Art of Metals in which the true benefit of gold and silver by mercury is taught, the manner of smelting them all, and how they are to be refined and separated from one another. 4to Madrid 1640. with figures. 1 Alphabet, 6 sheets.

Copy from the hand of Mr. von Leibniz.

The Earl of Sandwich, English Ambassador in Spain, obtained this book as an extremely great rarity and began to translate it into English, but he only completed 2 books, which were sent to print after his death and also translated into German. Both the English and German editors, as well as the readers, believed that they had the entire work in these two books. However, after a Spanish copy finally came into my hands, I saw that 3 books are missing from their translation. And because this work is held to be so rare in Spain itself, I have not had it copied in its entirety without difficulty.

The preface translated from English into German speaks of it thus:

Now you have in your hands a jewel which is held in such high regard in Spain and in the Indies that they exert all efforts to obtain it. Yet it is such a strange jewel that few have it for sale, and it was kept as secretly as that great secret of the Philosopher's Stone, which is only handed from one initiate to another. After it fell into our hands, however, one did not want to begrudge the rest of the human race such a great good, nor allow such a treasure to remain buried. So far the preface.

Joh. Conrad. Barckhusen, Pyrosophia Fire-Wisdom, succinctly and briefly touching upon iatrochemistry, metallurgy, and chrysopoeia gold-making. 4to Leiden 1698. with figures.

M. P. Barra, Abuse of Antimony and Bloodletting. 12mo Lyon 1664.

D. Casp. Bartholini, Royal Professor of Copenhagen, on the kidney stone the nephritic stone. 8vo Copenhagen 1627. also published in Opuscul. IV. singular. Four singular minor works, etc. 8vo Ibid. 1628.

• Idem, Opuscula IV. Singularia de Unicornu, de lapide nephritico, &c. Four singular minor works on the Unicorn, on the kidney stone, etc. 8vo Copenhagen 1628. 16 sheets.

Idem, Dissertation on Glossopetrae tongue-stones. 12mo Copenhagen 1706. see Nova Literaria Maris Baltici New Literature of the Baltic Sea, Year 1706, p. 278.

Idem, On perfectly mixed inanimate bodies or metals, stones and intermediate minerals, Book. 8vo Copenhagen.

Erasm. Bartholini, Experiments on Icelandic Crystal, etc. 4to Copenhagen 1690. with figures.

• 1670.

Idem, Observations on Icelandic Crystal, see Miscellanea Naturæ Curiosorum, Decad I, Year II, observation 169.