Réaumur's Memoirs on Steel and Iron. A Translation from the Original Printed in 1722 by Anneliese Grünhaldt Sisco. With an Introduction and Notes by Cyril Stanley Smith. (Presentation copy, signed by Smith to Henry Guerlac.)

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First of this edition. xxxiv, 1 leaf, 396 pp; 16 plates (each with explanatory leaf). Original cloth, 4to. Very Good, without dust jacket. Presentation copy, signed by Smith to Henry Guerlac: 'to Henry Guerlac/with compliments - (and/thanks for a footnote)/Cyril Stanley Smith/Oct. 1956.' On p. xxiii of his introduction, Smith writes, 'In an autobiographical note [Joseph] Black names Réaumur as one of only two chemical authors whom he enjoyed in his youth: 'The celebrated Réaumur's method of writing seemed to me to be uncommonly pleasing.' ' The footnote, citing this passage from William Ramsay's Life and Letters of Joseph Black, M.D. (London, 1918), adds, 'We are indebted to Professor Henry Guerlac for calling this to our attention.'. N° de ref. del artículo 03431

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