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ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. COURTIVRON, marquis de. BOUCHU. R…
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Estimate €400 - €500
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Description
ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
COURTIVRON, marquis de. BOUCHU. RÉAUMUR. DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU.
The art of forges and iron furnaces.
Paris, 1762-1781.
In-folio (42.5 x 28 cm). Contemporary mottled tan basane, spine with 6 bands, fawn title-piece, gilt tomaison, richly decorated boxes, red edges (epidermures, rubbed headpieces, dull corners, slight foxing, margins of the plates of the last part faded).
Rare set.
Volume devoted to the art of forges and iron furnaces, from the Description des arts et métiers de l'Académie royale des sciences. It includes essays on mines, fire applied to ironworking, the art of softening molten iron and making cast-iron works as finished as those in wrought iron, the art of reducing iron to wire, and locksmithing.
Illustrated with 90 beautiful copper-engraved plates in black.
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