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Publication Date: 1956
Seller: Jennifer Duncan, North Aurora, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1956, Univ. of Chicago Press, HB 396pp plus explanations of plates, VG/G (edges of dj yellowed and worn, gift inscription of previous owner, dj price clipped, interior clean and unmarked).
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1956, 1956
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good and tight copy in a good and tight dustjacket/brodart covered. Dustjacket has a couple of small piecies missing (about the size of a half of a penny.) and some very minor chips. Otherwise, this is a very nice and clean and tight copy. = WE ship all books with Delivery Confirmation. = WE have been selling Used Books for over 32 years.
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1956
Seller: Pegasus Books, Farmington Hills, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition (?). Hardcover is rusty red with darker red lettering on front, gold lettering on spine. Other than library markings, pages are very clean and tight. Introduction and notes by Cyril Stanley Smith. Seventeen pages of b/w pages of plates with accompanying page of explanation, at back of book. Sections are: Steelmaking; Softening Cast Iron; Glossary; Table of Contents of Memoirs; two appendices; index; plates and explanations. ; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 7 x 9 3/4; xxxiv, 396+ pages; Cover has shelf wear, rubbing, bumping, sunning; typical former library marks; stamps on all sides of text block. Few pages have minor markings. Missing DJ.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1956
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., xxxiv, 395 pp., with 17 plates at the end. Bound in russet cloth in pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket, priced at $6.00, has some rubbing and a lightly sunned spine. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Facsimile title page and plates of the 1722 edition.
Published by University of Chicago Pres, Chicago, IL, 1956
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st thus edition; dj w/lite wear only, unclipped price, in mylar; owner's name; 395 clean, unmarked pages/Glossary, bibliographic notes, appendices, index, 17 rear plates with explanations Size: 4 vo.
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1956
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 395pp/illus. A Translation from the Original Printed in 1722. In 1722, R.A.F. de Reaumur made a singular and unique contribution when he published his memoirs on Steel and Iron-the first significant book ever devoted to the economically important iron and steel industry. It was Reaumur who first clearly described the previously secret art of changing iron into steel and who invented the new art of making malleable cast iron-tow landmarks among scientific and technological discoveries. Clean.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1956
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First English Language Edition. xxxiv, 396pp + 17 bw plates with explanations, index, bibliographic notes. Or brown cloth in jacket. Prev owners name on front free endpaper along with 2 blacked out earlier prices. Jacket shows slight edge wear and light rubbing to folds. English language translation of de Reaumur's 1772 Memoirs on Steel and Iron, the first significant book devoted to the economically important iron and steel industry. Size: 4to.
Published by University of Chicago, Chicago, 1956
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Ed. 396 and 17 plates, light wear to dust jacket.
Seller: Devils in the Detail Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Title: Reaumur's Memoirs on Steel and Iron A translation from the original printed in 1722Author: Anneliese Grunhaldt SiscoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication date/edition (if known): 1956Binding: HardbackIllustrated: Monochrome plates at backPages:395Description / Condition: . Ex library copy with usual stamps, stickers and markings. Heavy wear, discolouration, creases and tears to jacket which has a torn protective cover applied, open dent to front, library stamp inside. Stains from tape inside, tear along pastedown at spine, loosening boards from binding, foxing to fore-edge, otherwise pages in good condition, shipped from the UK.
Published by University of Chicago Press
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1956. Hardcover. Cloth, dj, acetate wrap, top edge stained red, dj price clipped. Minor shelf-wear to dj. Sound copy with clean internals. Very Good.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1956
First Edition
Condition: near fine. First Thus. Introduction and Notes by Cyril Stanley Smith. Translated from the 1722 edition. "One of the great intellectual attempts of the eighteenth century was to make science effective -- to channel scientific knowledge into technological achievement. To that end, R. A. F. de Reaumur made a singular and uniques contribution when, in 1722, he published his Memoirs on Steel and Iron--- the first significant book devoted to the economically important iron and steel industry." near fine, protected in archival sleeve brown cloth, red lettering, binding very good, pages clean, Illustrated with facsimiles of 17 copperplates from the original 1722 edition. 395 pages, indexed.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1956
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Translated by Anneliese Grunhaldt Sisco. Introduction and Notes by Cyril Stanley Smith. Illustrated with facsimiles of 17 copperplates from the original 1722 edition. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Jacket has minor chipping at top of dust jacket spine panel and very slight wear at extermities. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. ; Black-and-white illustrations; 8vo.; 396 + plates pages.