The Art Of Glass Shewing How To Make All Sorts Of Glass Crystal And Enamel Likewise The Making Of

by Jean Glass Chemistry Haudicquer De Blancourt Approximately 1650 1704 Antonio Neri Christopher

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FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Jean Haudicquer de Blancourt's De l’art de la verrerie . Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of glass-making furnaces, tools, crucibles, and other apparatus. The core of Blancourt's text is Christopher Merret's annotated Latin edition 1668 of

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