NERI (Antonio ) & MERRET (Christopher) & KUNCKEL (Jo - Lot 15

NERI (Antonio ) & MERRET (Christopher) & KUNCKEL (Johannes) & HENKEL (Johann Friedrich) & ORSCHALL (Johann Christian). Art de la verrerie de Neri, Merret et Kunckel auquel on a ajouté le Sol Sine Vefte d'Orschall ; l'heliofcopium vivendi fine vefte folem chymicum ; Le Sol Non Sine Vefte, le Chapitre XI. du Flora Saturnizans de Henckel, sur la vitrification des végétaux ; un mémoire fur la maniere de faire le saffre ; le secret des vraies porcelaines de la Chine et de Saxe. Ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de fare le verre et le crystal, d'y porter des couleurs, d'imiterer les pierres précieuses, de préparer & colorer les Emaux, de faire la potaffe, de peindre fur le verre, de préparer les vernis, de compofer des couvertes sur les Fayances & les poteries, d'extraire la couleur pourpre de l'Or, de contrefaire le rubis, de faire le saffre, de faire et peindre les porcelaines etc..published in Paris by Durand et Pissot in 1752. Translated from the German by M.D ***. In-4 in full contemporary speckled calf, spine ribbed with gilt decoration in the boxes, title page of: fronstipice, (2), LV, 629 pages, (3) and 15 plates out of text (NB: plate 11 is bound at the end of the work). Rare first edition, translated by Baron d'Holbach from German, illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 folding copper plates, of this bible of the art of glassmaking. Includes a translation of the important treatise by Antonio Neri, a Florentine priest and glassmaker: "L'arte vetraria distinta in libri sette", published in 1612. The work covers all aspects of glassmaking, from the manufacture of glass, crystal and colored glass to the imitation of precious stones and the production of Chinese and Saxon porcelain; it also includes considerations and methods for gilding iron, texts on metals and their uses, recipes for colors and dyes... Armorial ex libris of Boisset Glassac pasted on the front cover and inscribed in pen on the title page. Corners and spines dulled.