THE METALLURGY OF GOLD

Maroon boards with blind stamped Griffin's Scientific Text-Books with their emblem on front cover and decorative blind rules along the cover edges. Corners bumped. Features 561 pages extensively detailed with numerous technical text figures, full-page photographic plates, and complex fold-out maps/diagrams illustrating industrial mining operations.

Significant cosmetic cloth loss affecting the bottom half of the outer spine cover. The underlying structural backing material is exposed, though it remains intact. Pages are clean overall, complete, and free of annotations, liquid staining, or major foxing. A highly stable, internally immaculate working copy.

Note: This 1937 printing stands as the seventh and final edition of this seminal text, representing the absolute pinnacle and definitive final update of the historic Griffin metallurgical series. The volume is notably rare, with no other original 1937 copies currently found for sale on the global antiquarian market.

Provenance: This specific volume bears the historic ownership inscription of Mr D. Ayres, active metallurgical chemist and professional member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. The copy served as a working on-site reference manual within the Reduction Works department at the Government Gold Mining Areas (Modderfontein) Consolidated, Ltd. in Brakpan, South Africa.