THE GOLDMAKERS 10,000 Years of Alchemy

DOBERER, K.K. trans. E.W.Dickes

Verlag: Nicholson & Watson, London and Brussels, 1948

Beschreibung

301 pp. (prelims in Roman), 24 text ills; internally clean, tight and unmarked bar innocuous small (15 mm) round stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office Library bottom front endpaper, covers generally clean and minimally worn bar a slight crease line acorss bottom front outer corner, spine a little dull with central vertical ridge. Appears to have been issued withvarious coloured cloth covers. Undivided into chapters the contents comprise a series of short essays, chronologically arranged on individual alchemists and golld-making episodes from antiquity ('The Goldenn Calf' gets a page) to the Polish enginer Dunikovski's 1930s efforts using 'Z-rays' in the 1930s. Apparently quite uncommon this is a very useful reference work with 62 (I make it) entries. Size: 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011415

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE GOLDMAKERS 10,000 Years of Alchemy

Verlag: Nicholson & Watson, London and Brussels

Erscheinungsdatum: 1948

Einband: Yellow Cloth

Zustand: Good+

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st ed.