New book on metallography

CSP: Conservation Science Press, Ware, announces the publication of
the following volume by David Scott, Chair, Interdepartmental
Programme in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation, UCLA, USA:

    David A, Scott
    2010  Ancient Metals: Microstructure and Metallurgy Volume I.

Metallography is the scientific examination of metals using the
optical microscope to study grains, phases, the distribution of
different components and how they affect casting and working
properties of the metals themselves.  The principal focus of this
book is on the alloys of copper with the elements silver, tin, zinc,
nickel, antimony and arsenic.  Drawing on a number of detailed case
studies, the author places some of this metallurgical knowledge on a
cultural basis from societies in both the Old World and the New.
This is the first volume in a multi-volume series on metallographic
studies which will include in later volumes, investigation of
corrosion and authenticity, iron, steels and cast iron, gold and
gilding and metallurgical studies from ancient Ecuador and Colombia.
The second volume in this series is scheduled to be printed in 2012.
358 pages, full colour throughout, indexed.  To order your copy at
the price of  $112, (US) UKP76 (English Pounds), or 88 Euros
(Europe) please send the appropriate check to the author:

    Dr. David A. Scott
    23 Milton Road, Ware
    Herts, SG12 0QA, UK

until December 8 2010 and after that date to

    Dr. David A. Scott,
    2054 Walgrove Avenue
    Los Angeles, California, 90066, USA

Please note that orders shipped to addresses within the continental
USA are shipped at no extra charge, while in the rest of the world a
shipping and handling fee of 5 dollars is necessary, therefore, with
shipping, the overall costs for Europe are UKP79 (English pounds) or
93 Euros (Europe and rest of the world).  Credit card payments
cannot be accepted. Please make cheque (check) payable to: Dr. David
A. Scott.


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