ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. - Lot 101

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ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. - Lot 101
ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. COURTIVRON, marquis de. BOUCHU. RÉAUMUR. DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU. Arts des forges et fourneaux à fer. Paris, 1762-1781. In-folio (42.5 x 28 cm). Contemporary speckled tan basane, 6-rib spine, fawn title-piece, gilt tomaison, richly decorated caissons, red edges (epidermures, rubbed headpieces, dull corners, slight foxing, margins of plates in 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 mining, 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 black copper-engraved plates.
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