THE AETS OF TANNING AND CURIIYING 



Theoretically and Practically considered in all their details. 

 Being a full and comprehensive Treatise on the Manufacture of 

 the various kinds of Leather. Illustrated by over two hundred 

 Engravings. Edited from the French of De Fontenelle and 

 Malapeyere. With numerous Emendations and Additions, by 

 Campbell Morfit, Practical and Analytical Chemist. Com- 

 plete in one Volume, octavo $5.00 



'Ibis important Treatise will be found to cover the whole field in the most 

 ma>terly manner, and it is believed that in no other branch of applied science 

 could more signal service be rendered to American Manufacturers. 

 ■ The publisher is not aware that in any other work heretofore issued in this 

 country, more space has been devoted to this subject than a single chapter ; 

 and in offering this volume to so lai'ge and intelligent a class as Anierican 

 Tanners and Leather Dressers, he feels eoufident of their substantial support 

 and encouragement. 



THE PRACTICAL COTTON-SPINNER AND MANIT- 

 EACTTJRER; Or, The Manager's and Overseer's 

 Companion. 



This vrorks contains a Comprehensive System of Calculations 



for Mill Gearing and Machinery, from the iirst moving power 



through the dili'erent processes of Carding, Drawing, Slabbing, 



Proving, Spinning, and Weaving, adapted to American Machinery, 



Practice, and Usages. Compendious Tables of Yarns and Reeds 



are added. Illustrated by large Working-drawings of the most 



approved American Cotton Machinery. Complete in One Volume, 



octavo $3.50 



This edition of Scott's Cotton-Spinner, by Oliver Byrne, is designed for the 

 American Operative. It will be found intensely practical, and will be of the 

 greatest possible value to the Manager, Overseer, and Workman. 



THE PRACTICAL METAL-WORKER'S ASSISTANT, 



For Tin-Plate Workers, Brasiers, Coppersmiths, Zinc-Plate 

 Ornamenters and W^orkers, Wire Workers, Whitesmiths, Black- 

 smiths, Bell Hangers, Jewellers, Silver and Gold Smiths, Elec- 

 trotypers, and all other Workers in Alloys and INIetals. By 

 Chakles Holtzappfel. Edited, with important additions, by 

 Oliver Byrne. Complete in One Volume, octavo $4.00 



It will treat of Casting, Founding, and Foraing; of Tongs and other Tools; 

 Degrees of Heat and jiauagemnet of Fires; Welding; of Heading and Swage 

 Tools ; of Punches and Anvils; of Hardening and Tempering; of JIalloable Iron 

 Castings. Case Hardening, Wrought and Cast Iron. The management and ma- 

 nipulalioi of Metals and Alloys, Melting and Mixing. The managem'-nt of Fur- 

 naces, Casting and Founding with Metallic >]ould.s, Joining and Working Sheet 

 ■Metal. rcs'U'.iarities of the diffi'rent Tool-! em'filoyed. Processes dependent on 

 the ductility of Metals. Wire Drawing, Di'awmg Metal Tubes. Soldering: The 

 •■ise of tlic. Blowpipe, and every other known Metal-^Vor]?er's Tool, To the 

 works of Holtzappfel, Oliver liYiiNE has added all that is useful and peculiar 

 V> thfe American Metal- Worker. 



