Buy this book on-line PARK, Professor JAMES: : A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICAL ASSAYING. FOR THE USE OF MINING SCHOOLS,MINERS, AND METALLURGISTSLONDON.CHARLES GRIFFIN & COMPANY,LIMITED,1914. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,publisher's review copy,UK,1st edn.[A first UK edn,as opposed to the first English (language) issue,having already been published as a series of lectures and laboratory notes for author's own students,appearing in New Zealand in two editions,followed by a large reprint containing some corrections and additions. This UK 1st edn is revised and enlarged from that 3rd New Zealand edition.] VG++. From the library/collection of previous owner,with his black ink name stamps; J. Norman Lockyer,,K.C.B.,F.R.S..,(Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and Fellowship of the Royal Society - awarded for contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge) one each to top edge of both half-title+title pages; and also a black ink publisher's 'Review Copy+ Published Price' stamp and a handwritten, pencilled price '7/6 net' annotation, alongside owner's name on the title page. Bright,fairly clean - a few tiny specks to rear board,generally sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with impressed/blocked triple-line borders to each; front cover with plain impressed publisher's initialled colophon and plain impressed Griffith's Mining Series towards top edge,a lightly sunned spine with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present and clean plain white endpapers.Top+fore-edges bright with very minimal,light ageing,fore-edges with some sporadic but faint blemish; contents bright,tight,clean - no foxing/spotting,no annotation - solid and sound - text body virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread,apart from my own collation. UK,8vo HB,publisher's review copy,UK,1st edn thus,vii-xiipp+1-342pp [paginated] includes (dated,1914) preface to first English edition,4pp contents list/table, Pts I-III comprising 11,21 and 2 chapters respectively,an introduction,profuse b/w illus/diagrams and tables+charts throughout the text and the book and an index; plus [unpaginated] 1pp publisher's advert,half-title with a horizontally tipped-in oblong paper slip of publisher indicating book supplied to Trade and without Discount to public,reverse of page with publisher's other advert for author's other works,title page,and to the rear,2pp blanks followed by 8pp publisher's catalogue.
An exceptional,bright copy,without the age deterioration and general usage and wear imperfections usually encountered in a book of its age.
Treatise on practical assaying - a branch of analytical chemistry - for the valuation of ores,bullion and metallurgical products.Three methods of assaying include the dry assay (the majority used),the wet assay,and a combination of the two methods,for assaying gold and silver ores.
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, KCB,FRS, (b. 17th May,1835 - d. 16th August,1920) was an English scientist and astronomer.With the French scientist Pierre Janssen,he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature (1869) - a publication to facilitate the transmission of ideas between scientific disciplines, remaining its editor until shortly before his death.He died at his home in Salcombe Regis in 1920,and was buried there,in the churchyard of St Peter and St Mary.
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