Traite de l’art metalique

by Alphonse Barba

$2,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

Paris: Saugrain, 1730. 8vo. xxii , 364, 38 pp. Folding engraved frontispiece and 7 folding engraved plates. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red, red silk marker. First quire misfolded. Item #19093 First French edition of this mining and metallurgy treatise, the first to describe the system of extracting gold, silver, and copper by boiling the mineral with saline and mercury. Barba

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