Weg-wyzer voor aankoomende goud en zilversmeeden. Verhandelende veele weetenschappen, die konsten raakende, zeer nut voor alle jonge goud en zilver-smeeden.

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Laer, Willem van

Publisher

• Publication

  t'Amsterdam: by Fredrik Helm, voor den auteur, 1721

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1721

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    edele metalen
  • As subject 

    kunstenaarshandboeken (vorm)
  • As subject 

    edelsmeedkunst

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    Dutch

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • An essential primary source for any study of the history of techniques of these trades, the book explains working methods and describes the tools, furnaces and other equipment. The book covers assaying, casting, alloying, purifying, working, engraving, filing, chasing, soldering, gilding, polishing, making steel instruments or seals, using acid to dissolve metals, etc. Of special interest are the many recipes and trade secrets the book also contains.
  • Met titelvignet en 4 kopergravures (door de auteur) en 2 gegrav. tabellen.

Online resources

• STCN-record

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