General - Non-profit nature and art magazine or... Lot 24
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General - Non-profit nature and art magazine or treatises for the promotion of natural history, the arts, manufactures and factories. 3 volumes (all published). With 3 copper titles and 7 engraved folding plates. Berlin, A. Wever, 1763-67. 7 pp. 726 p. (without sheet R = pp. 256-272), 1 leaf; 7 leaves, 829 pp.; LXIV, 648 pp., 3 leaves 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with gilt-stamped spine labels over wooden boards (spine rubbed and faded, small worm marks).
Complete set, rare. - Kirchner 3220 (inaccurate, without volume 3). - Volume 1 title or new edition of the first printing Jena 1755, volumes 2/3 in first edition. - The first volume contains translations from the "Journal oeconomique", Savary's "Dictionnaire de commerce" and other sources on dyeing, transportation of exotic plants and natural products by ship, Brazilian topazes, mirror glass manufacture in France, iron and blast furnaces, etc. - Volumes 2/3 consist of a translation of William Lewis' "Commercium Philosophico-Technicum, or the philosophical Commerce of Arts" (London 1763), the first part originally translated by Krünitz, the second after the translation by Ziegler published in Zurich in 1764. The main topics are the history of gold, platina and colors. In addition, magnificent laboratory illustrations and 5 plates of experimental furnaces and a water blower. The second volume also includes Wallerius' "Chymische Grundsätze des Ackerbaues" in the translation by Krünitz. - Volume 1 lacks the first sheet of Duhamel's essay "Besondere Art, ein stählernes Stäbgen magnetisch zu machen", 2 leaves of the preliminaries with old reinforced margins, 1 title page with ink stain, altogether in fine condition.
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