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Lot 139
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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300
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$192
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[SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY]. NERI, Antonio (1576-1614). Arte Vitraria Libri VII. & in eosdem Christophori Merretti, M.D. & Societatis Regiae Socii, observationes & notae. Amsterdam: Henr. Wetstenium. 1686.
16mo. Engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates. Early calf-backed boards, uncut (light wear to extremities, old shelf sticker on upper cover).
Later edition. "The earliest and most famous treatise on the chemistry and technology of glassmaking" (Neville). Originally published in Italian in 1612 and again in Latin in 1668. Neville I, 220 (first edition).