Verlag: Jean-Thomas Héissant, rue S. Jacques, Paris, 1759
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
lv, [ii], 629, [3]pp. 16 folding plates including frontispiece. 4to (9-7/8 x 7-6/8 inches). This French translation first published 1752. "The most important collection of early works on glassmaking and allied industries to appear in the eighteenth century, translated and edited by Baron d'Holbach . . . This classic work summarizes all the knowledge then available on the chemistry and technology of glassmaking and is valuable for the notes and additions by d'Holbach"--Neville II, 220. Bound in modern three quarer crimson morocco and marbled boards lv, [ii], 629, [3]pp. 16 folding plates including frontispiece. 4to (9-7/8 x 7-6/8 inches).