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Antonio NERI & Christopher MERRET & Johannes KUNCKEL & Johann Friedrich HENKEL & Johann Christian ORSCHALL

Art de la verrerie, de Neri, Merret et Kunckel auquel on a ajouté le Sol Sine Veste d'Orschall ; l'Helioscopium videndi sine veste solem chymicum ; le Sol non sine veste ; le chapitre XI du Flora saturnizans de Henckel sur la vitrification des végétaux ; un mémoire sur la manière de faire le saffre ; le secret des vraies porcelaines de Chine et de Saxe. Ouvrages où l'on trouvera la manière de faire le verre et le crystal, d'y porter des couleurs, d'imiter les pierres précieuses, de préparer et colorer les émaux, de faire la potasse, de peindre sur le verre, de préparer des vernis, de composer des couvertes pour les fayances et poteries, d'extraire la couleur pourpre de l'or, de contrefaire les rubis, de faire le saffre, de faire et peindre les porcelaines, etc.

Chez Durand, Pissot, à Paris 1752, in-4 (19,5x26cm), (4) lv (1), 629pp. (3), relié.

First edition, translated by Baron d'Holbach German, illustrated frontispiece of 1 and 15 folding plates on cuivre.Plein Calf time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Flush caps with headbands apparent. The lower jaw flat head split in the first two boxes. Scuffs with gaps on upper cover. 2 corners bumped. Part of title refaite.Compilation of several books on glassware collected and translated by Baron d'Holbach (his preface shows the different authors), including the important treaty Neri (1612) who published for the first time how to make colored glass, crystal glass ... Neri's book was the basis and foundation for all the books that followed on the same subject. It will be observed between the various notes and treated, the Henckel 's on how to use plants in the manufacture of glass, and ceui anonymously on the secrets of true porcelain. Finally we distinguish many recipes in the margins of glass art, including that of cobalt blue, but as regards metals, with the manner of brown iron, copper, silver, tan, how of produced colors, dyed black a red horse ... Bookplates manuscript De Montmirail. In 1806. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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