Live auction - Lot 769

[Glassmaking]

LÖWENSTERN-KUNCKEL, Johann von; NERI, Antonio; MERRET, Christopher

Ars vitraria experimentalis, oder vollkommene Blasmacher Kunst [...].

Frankfurt; Leipzig, C. Riegel, 1689


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4to: portrait-front.-[12]-472-[20] pp.; 20 pl. (occ. soiling, light red pencil marks in margins).

18th-c. calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (spine sl. faded and min. cracks).

Second ed. of this classic work on glass production, ill. with 20 engr. pl. out of text. Kunckel translated and edited two specialist works by Neri and Merret and collected his experiences and those of other glassmakers from all over Europe. This book became the standard for European glassmaking in the following hundred years. Printed in Gothic type. Kunckel (1630-1703) was a German chemist, his father being alchemist to the court of Holstein. He became chemist and apothecary to the dukes of Lauenburg, and then to the Elector of Saxony, Johann Georg II, who put him in charge of the royal laboratory at Dresden.
Ref. Ferguson I:485 & II:135. - VD17 7:711350D.
Prov. Bernard Cardon de Lichtbuer (bookpl.).

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Lot 769

Ars vitraria experimentalis, oder vollkommene Blasmacher Kunst [...].

LÖWENSTERN-KUNCKEL, Johann von; NERI, Antonio; MERRET, Christopher

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