LEWIS, WILHELM.

Physikalisch=chymische Abhandlungen und Versuche, zur Beförderung der Künste, Handwerke und Manufakturen. Aus dem Englischen übersetzet, und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Johann Georg Krünitz. (Erster Theil).

Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1764. Later blank boards. A small paperlabel has been pasted over "Erster Theil" on titlepage. The spectacular, large folded engraved frontispiece by P.S. Cabot showing a chemical laboratory, well equipped). (16),576 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean.

First German edition of Lewis classical work on applied chemistry "Commercium Philosophico-Technicum", published 1763 and 1767, and originally intended as a periodical. It deals with the history of gold, platinum, glass, porcelain etc.
Poggendorff I, 1443. - Duveen, 355 (English ed.).

Order-nr.: 52770