Journal de Voyage dans les fonderies d'Alsace et de Belgique

Unknown: Unique manuscript., 1883. Original half cloth over flexible paper card wrappers.. Very good; the binding is somewhat worn and chipped; one folding illus. is separated at the folds (no loss).. Folio (395 x 250 mm) notebook, appx. 154 pages. With a number of mounted illustrations (some folding, colored) and printed additions.

An impressive report on the work of foundries in Alsace, Diedrich and Niederbroun, and Cockerill in Belgium. The author appears to have been an engineer (parts of the report contain the use of calculus). A good deal of the report is given over to technical details (there is superb "nature printed" inserted illustration of the grain structure of cast iron utilizing a section of a casting as the printing plate for the full page illustration) and machinery. The latter covers the most modern equipment, power sources, shaping, forging, production of iron and steel (the Bessemer process is covered). A superb technical report.