London: Macmillan, 1906. Original dark burgundy cloth. xiii, + 212pp., small, intext line-drawn illustrations, plus tables and formulae throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Cloth randomly flecked, with minimal shelfwear. Textblock speckled all edges. Front fly-sheet has lower foredge corner excised, small splash-stain on several adjacent leaves, otherwise clean. No dustjacket. First published 1888, fully revised for the Second Edition [1895]. Written for the budding metallurgist, constituting an elementary treatise on the subject, dealing with principles rather than processes, the contents include: Intro., Definition, Properties, Principles, Alloys, Slags, Fuel, Iron, Steel, Silver-Gold-Platinum, Copper-Zinc, Lead-Tin, Nickel-Cobalt, Aluminium, Mercury, Antimony-Arsenic, Bismuth, Index. Book weight approx. 300g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . 2nd [Revised], 2nd Impression.. Hardcover [Original Cloth]. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Diversity Books, IOBA (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004523
Title: A TEXT-BOOK OF ELEMENTARY METALLURGY FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS
Author: Hiorns, Arthur H
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Edition: 2nd [Revised], 2nd Impression.
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1906
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TEXT-BOOK, METALLURGY, SCIENCE, SCIENCES
Bookseller catalogs: Science & Technology;

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Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...