Instructions for Collecting, Testing, Melting and Assaying Gold

Title: Instructions for collecting, testing, melting and assaying gold: with a description of the process for distinguishing native gold from the worthless ores which are found in the same locality and the chemical tests and necessary apparatus to be used for testing gold, silver, platina and mercury: the whole being simply arranged and free from scientific technicalities for the use of persons who are about to visit the gold region of California.

Author: Edward N Kent

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP05019500

CollectionID: CTRG04-B979

PublicationDate: 18480101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: "Catalogue of prices for apparatus and chemicals described in this work, and for sale by the author, at 116 John-Street, New-York"--p. [40].

Collation: 39, [1] p.: ill.; 20 cm