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RÉAUMUR, RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE. L'Art de Convertir le Fer Forgé en Acier. 17 folding engraved plates. [20], 566, [2] pages. 4to, 257x190 mm, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked at an early date, spine worn, joints cracked or starting; plates and some text toned, scattered foxing, gathering 2N heavily browned. Later 18th-/early 19th-century signature and armorial bookplate of James Norman; unidentified modern bookplate ("Per Aspera Ad Astra Salamander") on title verso. Paris: Michel Brunet, 1722
first edition of a manual of the manufacture of iron and steel, "the first reliable treatise on ferrous metal metallurgy" (Norman). Hoover 677; Norman 1803.
