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Etwas über Memnons Bildsäule, Neros Smaragd, Toreutik und die Kunst der Alten in Stein und Glas zu schneiden, als Zusätze zur Abhandlung über die Reformen in der Mineralogie (Bey C.G. Fleckeisen, 1792), by A. F. Veltheim and C. G. Fleckeisen (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Damascening -- Early works to 1800

Di un' urnetta lavorta all' agemina (Dalla stamperia Palese, 1800), by Daniele Francesconi and Antonio Sandi (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork -- Early works to 1800

Elemens de chimie docimastique, a l'usage de orfevres, essayeurs, et affineurs ... (chez Buisson ..., 1786), by Pierre de Ribaucourt, Buisson, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
A touch-stone for gold and silver wares. Or, a manual for goldsmiths, and all other persons, whether buyers, sellers, or wearers of any manner of goldsmiths work... Together with the several statutes now in force for regulating abuses committed in that craft. And the Charter of the Goldsmiths Incorporation taken from the Record and truly rendred into English. To which is annexed the laws in force against brass hilts, and brass buckles, etc. And directions for discovering the counterfeit coyn of this kingdom. And also a catalogue of the forraign coyns, with the particular weights, allay, and value of each coyn. (Printed for John Bellinger... and Thomas Bassett..., 1677), by W. B. (William Badcock), Thomas Bassett, and John Bellinger (page images at HathiTrust)
Der künstliche Gold- und Silber-Arbeiter : welcher gründlich und aufrichtig anzeiget, was nicht allein in Gold- und Silber-sondern fast in allerley Metallen, also Kupfer-Messing-Zinn-Stahl- und Eisen-Arbeiten insgemein zu wissen vonnöthen seyn mag : ein Werck so vielen Professionen nutzlich und dienlich : mit grosser Mühe und Fleiss zusammen getragen und treuhertzig mitgetheilet : von einem sonderbahren Liebhaber vieler Künst- und Wissenschafften. (In Verlegung Johann Christoph Lochners, Buchhändlers, 1726), by Johann Christoph Lochner (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Gilding -- Early works to 1800

L'art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur : ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes sortes de sujets, en bâtiments, meubles, bijoux, équipages, &c. in-8[vo] de 400 pages en trois parties (Chez Durand, neveu, rue Galande, à la Sagesse :, 1776), by Jean-Félix Watin and Roch-Henri Prévost Saint-Lucien (page images at HathiTrust)
Art du vernisseur, auquel on a joint ceux du peintre et du doreur (Chez Quillau, imprimeur-libraire, rue du Fouare :, 1772), by Jean-Félix Watin, François-Augustin Quillau, and Roch-Henri Prévost Saint-Lucien (page images at HathiTrust)
L'art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, et du fabricant de couleurs : ouvrage nécessaire aux amateurs, aux propriétaires qui veulent décorer leur séjour, et aux artistes qui s'adonnent à peindre, dorer et vernir toutes les parties du bâtiment, ainsi que les meubles, bijoux, équipages et laques (De l'imprimerie de Fr. Mistral, 1823), by Jean-Félix Watin, Roch-Henri Prévost Saint-Lucien, François Mistral, and Pierre d' Incarville (page images at HathiTrust)
L'art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur : ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes sortes de sujets en bâtiments, meubles, bijoux, équipages, &c. (Chez Grangé, imprimeur-libraire, au Cabinet Littéraire, Pont Notre-Dame, 1774), by Jean-Félix Watin, Jean-Augustin Grangé, Pierre d' Incarville, and Roch-Henri Prévost Saint-Lucien (page images at HathiTrust)
Tratado de barnizes y charoles : en que se da el modo de componer uno perfectamente, parecido al de la China, y muchos otros que sirven à la pintura, al dorar, y abrir, con otras curiosidades (Por Joseph Estevan Dolz :, 1735), by Genaro Cantelli (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden cabinet : being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts : containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant, and will afford both profit and delight. (Printed and sold by William Spotswood and H. & P. Rice ..., 1793), by Patrick Rice, Henry Rice, and William Spotswood (page images at HathiTrust)
L'art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, et du fabricant de couleurs : ouvrage nécessaire aux amateurs, aux propriétaires qui veulent décorer leur séjour, et aux artistes qui s'adonnent à peindre, dorer et vernir toutes les parties du bâtiment, ainsi que les meubles, bijoux, équipages et laques (Paris : Chez Belin fils, libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 55, 1815., 1815), by Jean-Félix Watin and Roch-Henri Prévost Saint-Lucien (page images at HathiTrust)
Sehr geheim gehaltene und nunmehro frey entdeckte experimentirte Kunst-Stücke, die schönsten und raresten Farben zu verfertigen : ingleichen die vergoldung und versilberung, sowohl kalt, als im Feuer, auf Metall, Glas und Porcellain, den feinsten gelben und weissen Tombac, rare Composition der Edelgesteine, Glassuren, Holtz- und Stein-Vergoldungen zu machen ... (Bey Johann David Schöps, 1789), by Johann Gottfried Jugel and Johann Jacob Schöps (page images at HathiTrust)
Gründlicher Unterricht zur Verfertigung guter Firnisse : nebst der Kunst zu Lakiren und zu Vergolden nach richtigen Grundsätzen und eigener Erfahrung für Künstler, Fabrikanten und Handwerker bearbeitet / Zweyter Theil. (In der Adam Gottlieb Schneider- und Weigelschen Kaiserl. privil. Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1800), by Johann Conrad Gütle and Adam Gottlieb Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
Haus- und Kunst-Übung (Nürnberg : Verlegts Sebastian Trautner, anno 1715., 1715), by Sebastian Trautner (page images at HathiTrust)
Künste und Geheimnisse grosser Künstler zum Gebrauch der Mahler, Bildhauer, Schwerdfeger, Uhrmacher, Buchbinder, Schreibemeister, u. dergl. ([s.n.] ;, 1771) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Gilding -- Technique -- Early works to 1800

Nouveau traité tres-instructif, aux artistes et amateurs du dessein, de la peinture et dorure : avec lequel ils leurs sera facile d'apprendre à copier, à dessiner, à peindre & à dorer d'eux-mêmes en très peu de tems, ils pourront peindre tableau ou ce qu'ils jugeront à propos, tant à l'huile, qu'en vernis, en détrempe, ou couleur liquide, ou en pastel : ledit traité indique les secrets pour faire toutes les couleurs & vernis concernant lesdits arts : le tout exactement expérimenté ([Jobier], 1779), by Ph Jobier (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork, Ancient -- Early works to 1800

Caspari Bartholini thom. f. De inavribvs vetervm syntagma (Sumptibus J. Henrici Wetstenii, 1676), by Caspar Bartholin and Thomas Bartholin (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork, Baroque -- Early works to 1800

Nouveaux desseins pour graver sur l'orfeverie (Chez I. Mariette, rue St. Iacques aux colonnes d'Hercule, in the 1700s), by goldsmith and engraver Masson and Jean Mariette (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800

Règlement général sur le fait de l'orfèvrerie et sur le commerce des matières d' or et d'argent ... : registré au Parlement le 29 février 1680 & à la Cour des monnoyes le 26 mars ensuivant. (de l'Imprimerie de Ch. Chenault ..., 1696), by Francia. Conseil d'État, Ch. Chenault, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
Arrest de la cour des monnoies qui fait défensés à tous marchands, colporteurs, revendeurs & autres, d'exposer, vender déiter ni commercer des piéces d'un métal imitant l'or ... : du 31 janvier 1776. (de l'Imprimerie de Royale, 1776), by Francia. Cour des monnoies de Paris, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoire pour les jurés en charge & communauté des maîtres tireurs-batteurs-ecacherus & fileurs d'or & d'argent de Paris, intervenans contre le sieur Hemant, pourvû des deux nouveaux Offices d'affineurs de Paris, & le sieur Girard ... (de l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Paulus-du-Mesnil ..., 1758), by Pierre-Augustin Paulus-Du-Mesnil and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
Mémoire signifié pour les maîtres & gardes du Corps de l'orfévrerie joaillerie de la ville de Paris, apellans contre les sieurs Boze & du Bourdieu, intimés & contre le sieur Germain sculpteur orfevre du roi ... (de l'Imprimerie de P.A. le Prieur ..., 1767), by Pierre Alexander Le Prieur and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
Mémoire a consulter et consultation pour le Sieur François-Thomas Germain, ecuyer, sculpteur-orfevre du Roi. (de l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez ..., 1766), by François Thomas Germain, Guillaume Desprez, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
Arrest de la cour des Aydes : qui infirme une sentence de l'election de Paris qui condamnoit le sieur Pierre-Nicolas Sommé ... (chez P.G. Simon ..., 1768), by François Thomas Germain, P.G. Simon, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800

By the King. A proclamation concerning vvyer, threed, and other manufactures made of gold and siluer. (Imprinted at London : by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M. DC. XXIII. [1623]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Goldwork -- Patterns -- Early works to 1800

Nouveaux desseins pour graver sur l'orfeverie (Chez I. Mariette, rue St. Iacques aux colonnes d'Hercule, in the 1700s), by goldsmith and engraver Masson and Jean Mariette (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork -- France -- Paris -- Patterns -- Early works to 1800

Elements d'orfevrerie : divisés en deux parties de cinquante feuilles chacune (Chez l'auteur, place du Carousel a l'Orfevrerie du roy, 1748), by Pierre Germain, Jacques Roëttiers, Jean Jacques Pasquier, Jacques-François Chereau, Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, Marguerite Caillou, and Jean Charles Baquoy (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork -- Technique -- Early works to 1800

Due trattati di Benvenuto Cellini scultore fiorentino : uno dell'oreficeria : l'altro della scultura. (Nella stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi., 1731), by Benvenuto Cellini (page images at HathiTrust)
Due trattati di Benvenuto Cellini, scultore fiorentino : uno dell'oreficeria, l'altro della scultura. (Nella stamperia di S.A.R. :, 1731), by Benvenuto Cellini, Santi Franchi, and Giovanni Gaetano Tartini (page images at HathiTrust)
Due trattati, uno intorno alle otto principali arti dell'oreficeria (Per Valente Panizzij, & Marco Peri., 1568), by Benvenuto Cellini (page images at HathiTrust)
Abhandlungen über die Goldschmiedekunst und die Sculptur (E.A. Seemann, 1867), by Benvenuto Cellini, Presbyter Theophilus, and Justus Brinckmann (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Goldwork -- Technological innovations -- Early works to 1800

Mémoire sur les inventions de Philibert Charmy, marchand tireur, écacheur & fileur d'or à Lyon, relatives à la perfection des traits & des filés : avec des gravures pour l'explication des machines anciennes & nouvelles. (Chez Faucheux, imprimeur-libraire, quai & maison des Célestins, 1785), by Philibert Charmy and Claude-André Faucheux (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Leadwork -- Early works to 1800

I piombi antichi (Nella stamperia di Girolamo Mainardi, 1740), by Francesco Ficoroni (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Pewter -- Early works to 1800

By the King. A proclamation concerning tin and pewter. (Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty: and by the assignes of John Bill, 1640), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Pewter -- Taxation -- Early works to 1800

A declaration of sundry grievances concerning tinne and pewter worthy the serious consideration of the Honourable Houses of Parliament, in the behalfe of the Pewterers, and people of the three kingdomes. / By I.S. A desirer of his countries freedomes. (London : Printed for John Svveeting at the Angell in Popes-head Alley, 1646), by I. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Pewter -- Taxation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800

Metal for metal: or, A proposal for a duty upon tin and pewter wrought in plates, dishes, or any other work whatsoever, of one penny upon every pound weight, to be levied as hereunder express'd, from the 1st of January 1695. for sixteen years next following; and the sum of money arising thereby to be applied to make good the loss upon the clipt money. ([London? : s.n., 1694]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Silverwork -- Early works to 1800

Filed under: Silverwork, Baroque -- Early works to 1800

Nouveaux desseins pour graver sur l'orfeverie (Chez I. Mariette, rue St. Iacques aux colonnes d'Hercule, in the 1700s), by goldsmith and engraver Masson and Jean Mariette (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Silverwork, Byzantine -- Early works to 1800

Dissertazione sopra un clipeo votivo spettante alla famiglia Ardaburia : trovato l'anno MDCCLXIX, nelle vicinanze d'Orbetello ora esistente nel Museo di S.A.R. Pietro Leopoldo, arciduca d'Austria, e granduca di Toscana (Per Leonardo Venturini, 1771), by Domenico Agostino Bracci and Leonardo Venturini (page images at HathiTrust)
De cruce Vaticana ex dono Justini Augusti (Ex typographia eiusdem Sacrae Congregationis, praesidum facultate, 1779), by Stefano Borgia and Typographia Congregationis de Propaganda Fide (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Silverwork -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800

By the King. A proclamation concerning vvyer, threed, and other manufactures made of gold and siluer. (Imprinted at London : by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M. DC. XXIII. [1623]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Silverwork -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800

By the King. A proclamation for repeale of certaine letters patents, commissions, and proclamations, concerning innes, ale-houses, and the manufacture of gold and siluer threed. (Imprinted at London : by Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, M. DC. XXI. [1621]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Silverwork -- Netherlands -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800

Catalogus van zilvere medaljes, &c. (By Andries Dyckhusyen, alwaar de catalogus te bekomen ist, 1723), by Andries Dyckhuysen (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Silverwork -- Patterns -- Early works to 1800

Nouveaux desseins pour graver sur l'orfeverie (Chez I. Mariette, rue St. Iacques aux colonnes d'Hercule, in the 1700s), by goldsmith and engraver Masson and Jean Mariette (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Silverwork -- France -- Paris -- Patterns -- Early works to 1800

Elements d'orfevrerie : divisés en deux parties de cinquante feuilles chacune (Chez l'auteur, place du Carousel a l'Orfevrerie du roy, 1748), by Pierre Germain, Jacques Roëttiers, Jean Jacques Pasquier, Jacques-François Chereau, Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, Marguerite Caillou, and Jean Charles Baquoy (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Silverwork -- Technique -- Early works to 1800

Due trattati di Benvenuto Cellini scultore fiorentino : uno dell'oreficeria : l'altro della scultura. (Nella stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi., 1731), by Benvenuto Cellini (page images at HathiTrust)
Due trattati di Benvenuto Cellini, scultore fiorentino : uno dell'oreficeria, l'altro della scultura. (Nella stamperia di S.A.R. :, 1731), by Benvenuto Cellini, Santi Franchi, and Giovanni Gaetano Tartini (page images at HathiTrust)

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Filed under: Art metal-work

Enameling on metal. (Greenberg, 1957), by Oppi Untracht (page images at HathiTrust)
Hope's leadwork. (Hope (Henry) & Sons, 1917), by Henry Hope & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
Metalcraft and jewelry (Manual Arts Press, 1926), by Emil F. Kronquist (page images at HathiTrust)
Artistic metalwork (Bruce Pub. Co., 1940), by Alexander Frederick Bick (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on the Cross of Cong (Printed at the Dublin University Press by Ponsonby and Weldrick, 1895), by Margaret Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
Art metalwork with inexpensive equipment, for the public schools and for the craftsman (The Manual Arts Press, 1914), by Arthur Frank Payne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
François Briot, Caspar Enderlein und das Edelzinn (K. W. Hiersemann, 1897), by Hans Demiani (page images at HathiTrust)
Schmiedekunst. (E. A. Seemann, 1893), by Franz Sales Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
How to make copper book ends. (Practical Arts Publishing Co., 1927), by Grace V. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of some of the principal reproductions of ancient Irish art in gold, silver, and metal work, as manufactured by Edmond Johnson, Ltd. (Edmond Johnson, Limited, manufacturing goldsmiths, silversmiths, and art metal workers, 94, Grafton Street, 1901), by Edmond Johnson and Edmond Johnson Ltd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Art de modeler et de façonner facilement le métal (étain, cuivre, etc.) sans avoir recours ni à la fonte ni à la galvanoplastie (Paris : Imprimerie des beaux-arts, [1903], 1903), by Emile Bayard and Jean Baffier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Art crafting in metal for amateurs : being the art of ornamenting thin metal with pierced and raised design (Fort Hill Press, 1920), by Frank Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
Art metal work and jewelry. ([White Plains, N.Y.], 1946), by Louis J. Haas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ornamental metal work. Contracts. (International Textbook Co., 1923), by International Library of Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
Metal art crafts. (D. Van Nostrand, 1949), by John Guthrie Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Examples of ornamental metal work (London : Wm. Pickering, 57, Chancery Lane, 1836., 1836), by Henry Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Praxis des Kunstschlossers : Vorlagen für einfache und reichere Kunstschmiedarbeiten (Paul Wenzel, in the 1890s), by Gebrüder Lipgens (page images at HathiTrust)
Les Arts du métal : (orfevrerie, bijouterie, ferronnerie, bronze) album comprenant 200 gravures (Bibliotheque de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1892), by Emile Molinier (page images at HathiTrust)
Motifs de serrurerie extraits de publications diverses ... (Morel, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
Illustrated catalogue of statuary, fountains, vases, settees, etc., for parks, gardens and conservatories, manufactured by the J.L. Mott Iron Works ... (E.D. Slater, printer, 1875), by J.L. Mott Iron Works (page images at HathiTrust)

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