Author: CRAMER, John Andrew:
Title: Elements of the Art of Assaying Metals. In two parts. The first containing the theory, the second the practice of the said art. The whole deduced from the true properties and nature of fossils. Translated from the Latin.
Description: London, for Tho Woodward and C. Davis, 1741, first edition in Englsh, 8vo, pp. [12], 470, [8], with six folding plates. Contemporary calf with porobably later leather title label. Small blank torner torn from one leaf, short, clean split to one fold of plate 2, else very good, clean and sound condition, Contemporary signature of Charles Nobileau on title page ( in the mid 18th century there was a Huguenot sheriff of Dublin of that name ).

Keywords: metals,assaying,fossils,furnaces,blowpipe,smelting


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