McDonald, Donald and Hunt, Leslie B

Johnson Matthey, London, 1982.  HB ix + 450 pages, illustrated throughout. 180 x 250mm.

This is a complete rewrite and expansion of Donald McDonald's A History of Platinum From the Earliest Times to the Eighteen-Eighties.  It tells of the initial discovery of the metal and all of the difficulties with its extraction and the attempts to bring about its melting - and its now growing range of industrial applications and increasing importance.

Almost as new.