[Rarebooks] FS: Lopez Cancelada's work on mining in Span and the New World. Madrid: 1831

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Lopez Cancelada, Juan. MINAS EN ESPANA. Tratado del Beneficio de Sus Metales de Plata por Azoque, Sugun el Metodo Mas Comunmente Usado en Nueva Espana, Formado por D. Federico Sonneschmid... Publicado Don Juan Lopez Cancelada... Madrid: R. Verges. 1831. Sm. 4to. 214,(2)pp. With the final leaf of errata and the fine engraved portrait of Lopez Cancelada, holding a map of the New World. Orig. mottled calf.                      $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
A large part of the text, pp. 45-181, prints the unpublished manuscript written in 1799 by Friedrich T. Sonneschmidt.  Lopez Cancelada was the editor of "La Gaceta de Mejico." Palau 140903.

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