ROVENZON, John.

A Treatise of Metallica. But not that which was published by Mr. Simon Sturtevant vpon his Patent, which is now by order cancelled and made voyd, by reason of his standing out-lawed at the time of the grant, and so still continuing, and his neglect, and not performance of the workes. Whereupon Priviledge, by Patent, is granted by the Kings most excellent Maiesty, to Iohn Rovenzon, Esquire, for the making of Iron, and other Mettals and Materials with Sea-cole, Pit-cole, &c. for one and thirty yeares. According to which Patent and direction therein, this Treatise, composed by the same Iohn Ro...

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[14] leaves (lacking the first & final leaves, both of which are blank). Small 4to, fine modern green morocco (a few leaves shaved, a light stain on title) by Laurenchet, dentelles gilt. London : Printed [by N. Okes] for Thomas Thorp, 1613. First edition and an extremely rare book of which, according to the NESTC, there are only five known copies (not including of this copy). This text was reprinted along with Simon Sturtevant's Metallica (1612) and Dud Dudley's Metallum Martis (1665) in 1854. "The problem of expanding the manufacture of iron in the British Isles after about 1600 came to be bound up with the replacement of wood by coal in the furnaces and the forges at which pig iron was converted into bar iron...How, then, did the conquest by coal of the smelting-processes in Great Britain come about? Two men claimed to have solved the problem of substituting coals for charcoal as fuel in the blast-furnaces at which iron ore was smelted and run into moulds, at the very beginning of the seventeenth century. Simon Sturtevant, who was apparently of Dutch origin, and John Rovenzon published treatises on metallurgy in 1612 and 1613 advocating the adoption of coal-burning blast furnaces, which they suggest are feasible though they fail to describe the processes that they profess to have invented to bring it about."-Singer et al., eds., A History of Technology, Vol. III, pp. 78-79. Sturtevant was issued a patent in 1611 for his proposal to use coal instead of wood or charcoals in smelting iron and other metals. But in a few months, the grant was withdrawn and another issued in its place to John Rovenzon, an assistant to Sturtevant. Rovenzon's A Treatise of Metallica "shows that he had a true conception of the method of manufacture."-Samuel Smiles, Industrial Biography, Chapter 3. A fine copy. Duveen, p. 183-(1854 reprint only). NESTC 21355. Hoover 697-(1854 reprint only). Partington, II, p. 61. Sotheran, First Supplement, 6420-(describing the original edition as "excessively rare").

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