Theoretisch Practische Belehrung Uber Die Anstellung Und Fuhrung Der Waidindigkupe Sowie Uber

by Carl Friedrich Scherf

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First edition

One folding hand-colored engraved plate. 2 p.l., ix -xx, 290 pp. Small 8vo, cont. half-sheep & marbled boards, flat spine gilt, orange & green leather labels on spine. Weimar: B.F. Voigt, 1842. First edition. Scherf was a dyer at Freiburg and wrote several other books on the subject. The present work is devoted to woad Isatis tinctoria , its cultivation, and uses in making indigo dyes. The plate is a color scale depicting 36 different shades of

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