Author: VAUQUELIN Louis Nicolas ( 1763 - 1829 ) :
Title: Manuel de l'Essayeur, par M. Vauquelin, Essayeur du Bureau de Garantie du Département de la Seine, et Membre de l'Institut Impérial de France.
Description: .: Paris, Chez J. Klostermann fils, 1812, in-8°, (4)nn pp + 96 pp, bound in modern green half leather, marbled boards, uncut copy, some slight foxing but a good copy. Text in French. Second edition of this important publication on essaying metals and gold. This work was translated in German and Spanish and was published until 1835. There is a first edition of 1799 which is obviously so rare that neither Poggendorf nor Bolton were aware of it . The author is also known for his discovery of the metals Chromium and Beryllium.. .

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