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Jack-Philippe Ruellan

111 - GALON & DUHAMEL du MONCEAU. The Art of Converting Red Copper or Rosette Copper into Brass or Yellow Copper Using Calamine Stone; of Casting It into Ingots; of Beating It with a Hammer, and of Drawing It Through a Die [With:] On the Smelting and Refining of Copper and Potin at Villedieu-les-Poëles, in Normandy. By Mr. Duhamel Du Monceau. [Paris], , 1764. 2 titles in one folio volume, [2]-78 pp. in continuous numbering, with 18 engraved figures on 12 fold-out plates. Half-calf, with a superlibris from the Royal Artillery School of Metz (19th-century binding). Binding heavily worn, with significant losses along the spine.

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€200 - 300

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GALON & DUHAMEL du MONCEAU. The Art of Converting Red Copper or Rosette Copper into Brass or Yellow Copper Using Calamine Stone; of Casting It into Ingots; of Beating It with a Hammer, and of Drawing It Through a Die [With:] On the Smelting and Refining of Copper and Potin at Villedieu-les-Poëles, in Normandy. By Mr. Duhamel Du Monceau. [Paris], , 1764. 2 titles in one folio volume, [2]-78 pp. in continuous numbering, with 18 engraved figures on 12 fold-out plates. Half-calf, with a superlibris from the Royal Artillery School of Metz (19th-century binding). Binding heavily worn, with significant losses along the spine. One of the 113 volumes comprising the *Description des arts et métiers*, compiled or approved by the members of the Academy of Sciences, and published between 1761 and 1789. (Brunet II, 618–619.)

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Books & Documents
Saturday, November 28
10:00 AM
8, rue du docteur Joseph-Audic, zone d'activités du Ténénio
56001 Vannes, France

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