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A HISTORY OF THE PRtCiOUS METAIS
From the Earliest Times to the Present;
By Alex Del Mar.
Second Ed., Complete in One YoL; pp. 511, 8vo. CLOTH AND GOLD, $3.W
Tills li not a recension of the first edition (London, 1860), but an entlroly new work,
constructed on an Improved plan bjr tbo same author. Tha following ar from tho presi
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Abounds with -vivid description and practical knowledge London Athenaeum.
Beple'to with information ; evinces much care and tudy. .London Academy.
Shows the most conspicuous advunco beyond his prcaccosaera. Zoncion Saturday
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A work of great woight and oleganco of stylo. London Economist.
No such able and oxhaustivo work inco that of William Jacob. London Statist.
Years ago Mr. Del Mnr gavo tb the public "A History of the Precious Motels"
whicli has since become a standard work on the subject. In that work was traced the ,
advonturos of the Phoenicians, Romans, Spaniards, Cnliforninns and Australians
thoso Argonauts who variously from tho dawn of history to tbo present timo, have led
tho search for tho prooious motals. Bosido discovery, tho author showed that thoso
motals had been largely obtained through conquest and slavory. Tho Persian, Greek,
Homnn, Egyptian, Spanish, and British conquests of mining countries, and tho Roman
and Spanish systems of mine slavery, wore noxt delineated, and finally the conditions
of frco mining woro examined. Upon a general roviow of tho entire subject, tho author
found amplo reason to agreo with tho celebrated dictum of Montesquieu, that upon the
wholo, gold and silvor. when obtained by frco mining and paid labour, had cost to the
world a far greater prico than they represented in tho exchanges. Montesquiou arrived
at this conclusion by instinct; Mr. Del Mar reached it through historical research.
Sacramento Record-Union.
Mr. D. has thoroughly surmounted ovory obstacle, and furnished a volumo roplete
with information. Every lino will be read. London Mining Journal.
A complote text-book on tho subject. .London Money.
Basod on independent research. London Daily News.
Of tho highost scientific valuo, yet readablo as a novol. New York Economist.
The poculiar advantages which Mr. Del Mar has onjoyod have alono enabled a work
of such magnitudo and historical valuo to bo completed in a single lifetime Ho has
travoled into ovory country whose monotary system ho has delineated; ho has examined
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by the light of thoso researches ho has bcon enablod to construo many obscure passagos
in the texts of Caesar, Pliny, Plutarch, and othor ancient writers. Mr. Del Mar's works
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