Book Details
| Author: | Lewis, W.: |
| Title: | Commercium Philosophico-Technicum; or, The Philosophical Commerce of Arts: Designed as an attempt to improve Arts, Trades and Manufactures. |
| Published: | London: W. Lewis, 1763. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 15 - Art & Architecture |
| Description: | Contents: Dedication to the King, Preface (xviii); The Contents (x), 646 pp + Index. Frontispiece - folding detailed engraving & 5 other engraved plates. Contents: Description of a Portable Furnace for Making Experiments, History of Gold, Experiments of the Conversion of Glass Vessels into Porcelain, Of the Blowing of Air into Furnaces by a Fall of Water, History of Colours, History of Platina, + Appendix. Title page loose. No half title or free fep. Both boards detached. Intermittent staining in text but text mostly clean. Binding tight internally. Armorial bookplate on fep. Bound in full contemporary tan leather. Gilt lettering on black spine label. Spine label rubbed. Five raised bands on spine edged with gilt. Surface of boards scuffed. Edges and corners of boards well rubbed. Overall condition Good. |
| Book Number: | #7978 |
| Price: | € 420.00 |
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