Modo di affinare e partire l'oro dall'argento, et altro belle cose segrete, che non sone molto volgare, 1526.

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Modo di affinare e partire l'oro dall'argento, et altro belle cose segrete, che non sone molto volgare, 1526.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701963415

An apparently unpublished treatise on gold refining. The unknown author describes recipes for different methods of refining and assaying, giving practical advice as to what type of vessels and what type of ovens to use. He seems to have been a master of a mint, as he appends two long lists, one of silver, the other of gold coins issued from various Italian, French, Hungarian, German and English mints, and all current in Italy in 1526. He lists the alloys and the correct weights of more than 100 different coins. Includes one marginal sketch of a test tube. In Italian.

1 bound volume, 29 cm., 115 pages.

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