Comentarios a las ordenanzas de minas. English

Commentaries on the mining ordinances of Spain : dedicated to His Catholic Majesty, Charles III. / by Don Francisco Xavier de Gamboa, fellow of the Royal and Most Ancient College of San Ildefonso at Mexico, advocate of the Royal Chancery of that city, counsel for the prisoners of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ... ; translated from the original Spanish by Richard Heathfield, Esquire, of Lincoln's Inn, barrister at law.

London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster-Row, 1830.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

Printer's colophon: Baynes and Harris, printers, 31, Gracechurch Street (volume 1, verso of title page and page 384, and volume 2, page 368).
Volume 1: xxxi, [1], 384 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates; volume 2: vii, [1], 368 pages, [1] leaf of plates.
Signatures: volume 1: [A]⁸ b⁸ B-X⁸ chi-²chi¹ Y-Z⁸ 2A⁴ 2B⁸ 2C⁴; volume 2: [A]⁴ B-L⁸ M⁸ (M3+chi¹) N-2A⁸.
Errata: volume 2, page 368.
Spanish original published in 1761.
Text of law followed by commentary.
Volume 2, chapter 28: "A list of the mining districts of New Spain, with their distances from the City of Mexico."

Binding: maroon library buckram, gold-stamped on back, with speckled page-edges.
Originally classed as: KE3669.5.G34 1830.

Translation of: Commentarios a las ordenanzas de minas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

RARE

KKT3344 .G36 1830

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