Mining and surveying. Five works. J. H. Collins. 'Observatio...

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Mining and surveying. Five works. J. H. Collins. 'Observations on the West of England Mining Region,' first edition, original cloth with tears and rubbed, flat signed Herbert V. Thomas Dolcoath Mine to front free endpaper, fold out map, lithograph plates, printed for the Author by William Brendon & Son, Plymouth, 1912; J. B. Johnson. 'The Theory and Practice of Surveying,' sixteenth edition, original cloth, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1907; A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. 'The Cornish Miner,' first edition, original cloth sun bleached, ink libri stamps to endpapers Camborne School of Mines, plates, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1927; Bennett H. Brough. 'A Treatise on Mine-Surveying,' ninth edition, original cloth, ink initials R.C.A.H, Charles Griffin & Company, London, 1902; With a rough copy of James D. Dana's 'Manual of Mineralogy & Petrography, 1895. (5) From the estate of Ron Hooper, M.V.O., A.C.S.M., F.I.M.M. Born in St.Agnes, he graduated from Camborne School of Mines. After a short career mining in the Gold Coast of Ghana he joined the Camborne School of Mines, eventually becoming Senior Lecturer in Surveying. At the same time, he acted as an independent mining engineer and was appointed mineral agent for several Cornish estates including the Duchy of Cornwall, Tregothnan, and the Godolphin Estate (amongst others).